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Early bird discounts available for UK Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® courses
January 02, 2018


Early bird discounts available for 2018 courses in the UK

Courses for next year's 5-day Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® workshops in the UK are filling up fast. Book early to take advantage of early bird discounts.

"I learnt a tremendous amount - really pleased to be armed with a great skill set and belief. Overall excellent."

Whether you are a complete beginner or perhaps you would just like to develop your skills and confidence, particularly at drawing from life, then this 5-day Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® workshop is for you.

Courses are held in central London and north Wales (you can find out more about courses in the USA and the rest of the world at the end of the newsletter). In this newsletter you will find:

  • Information about the content 5-day Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® course, devised by Dr. Betty Edwards.

  • UK Courses Details of 2018 workshops

  • What is stopping you drawing? Some tips to banish procrastination and get back into drawing.

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Anna Black
Certified Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® instructor, operating under license from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® Inc (www.drawright.com)


UK COURSE DATES 2018

If you've always wanted to learn to draw, Dr. Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® 5-day intensive course is a proven technique for teaching drawing - particularly to those people who swear they could never be taught to draw! This course is taught in the UK by Anna Black, certified and licensed by Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® Inc.

Anna teaches in the UK in central London (Little Venice), non-residential, and North Wales, near Bangor, (residential).
  • The course lasts for 5 days (9.30am-5.30pm) and includes 35 hours of teaching and The Drawing Portfolio (RRP over £80).

  • The cost for the course and all materials is £525. There is an additional charge for board and accommodation on the residential courses.

  • The contents of the Drawing Portfolio were designed by Dr Betty Edwards and Brian Bomeisler. It includes all the materials you will need for the course, including drawing tools unique to Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain®. These unique tools were developed by Brian Bomeisler based on those used by the Old Masters. The Portfolio and its contents are yours to take home and keep.


CENTRAL LONDON
Amadeus Centre, 50 Shirland Road, Little Venice, London W9 2JA (Nearest tube: Warwick Avenue (Bakerloo line))


WHEN?

  • Monday 26th March to Friday 30th March 2018
    • This course is filling up

  • Monday 21st to Friday 25th May 2018
    • early bird discount bookings paid in full by 30th January 2018

  • Monday 17th to Friday 21st September 2018
    • early bird discount bookings paid in full by 1st April 2018

  • Monday 5th to Friday 9th November 2018
    • early bird discount for bookings paid in full by 31st May 2018

    HOW MUCH? £525 including all drawing and learning materials in the Portfolio
    £50 discount (£475) for early bird bookings, see expiry dates for individual courses.


    NORTH WALES
    Trigonos, Nantlle, North Wales (nearest train station is Bangor)


    WHEN? Saturday 21st July to Thursday 26th July 2018
    This course is residential although non-residential options are available.

    HOW MUCH? £525 plus accommodation and full board
    £50 discount (£475) for early bird bookings paid in full by 28th February 2018.

    The Course Fee does not include accommodation or full board. There is an additional cost for this which varies depending on the room. (£465 for 5 nights full board for single ensuite to £440 for 5 nights full board twin ensuite. Some rooms with shared facilities at a lower price may be available.
    Note this course is filling up fast and there are limited places left.


    UNIQUE PORTFOLIO OF MATERIALS

    On every course you will be given a Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Portfolio® with unique tools designed by Dr Betty Edwards and Brian Bomeisler. This contains all the materials you will need for the course plus learning materials including a dvd. You can find out more here

    UNITED STATES
    If you are interested in purchasing the portfolio separately or for courses in the United States with Brian Bomeisler or courses elsewhere in the world, please click here

    COURSE FEEDBACK



    You can read some participant feedback and a more indepth account of one participant's experience here

    Read what the media and other people have thought of Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® course here ( a new window will open)

    What is stopping you drawing...

    It is interesting to pause and notice sometimes what is stopping us from moving forward. Is it a mental block ‘I can’t…’, ‘I could do never…’? Or perhaps you find yourself watching yet another episode of the latest box set on Netflix just because it's there. It doesn’t matter what it is but it is useful to become familiar with what gets in the way for you.

    One of the commonest reasons I hear for not drawing is that ‘I don’t have time’. My challenge to you this month is to find the wasted moments in your daily life when you could find time to draw. Here are some tips that I hope might help.

    • Keep a pared down drawing kit to hand. Consider carefully what the essentials are and stick to them.
    • I separate my materials into different boxes – pastels in one, drawing pencils in another, charcoal in another etc. This does mean I sometimes end up buying duplicates of things like kneaded erasers but I think it’s worth it as it saves me having to scrabble around in different boxes trying to find stuff.
    • Think about what is the best media to use for the time you have. A pencil drawing done in hard H pencils needing multiple layers of cross hatching is going to take several hours. For making the most of pockets of time I’d use an ink pen or biro, charcoal, an 8B or softer pencil or oil pastels (not chalk as the clearing up of the chalk dust takes too long!).
    • Consider keeping a list of things to draw in your sketchbook or a folder of reference photographs or drawings to work from. We all get stuck for inspiration so make it easy for yourself.
    • Touch screen phones and devices have made digital painting so much more accessible. I have used the Brushes app on my iphone and ipad but I at the moment I use ArtRage. There are all kinds of apps for colour and black and white, for apple and android, so experiment.

    I find the more I draw and paint, the more I want to do it but sometimes I have to give myself a shove to start the ball rolling, then I just do it, regardless of whether I am in the mood or not.

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