Hello, Welcome to the November newsletter. Registration is now open for course dates in 2010 which are listed below. In this month's newsletter you will find:

• Information about the content 5-day Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain course, devised by Dr. Betty Edwards. This includes links for viewing a slideshow of participants' work and reading course feedback.


• Course Dates for 2010 Registration is open for two courses in central London and one in North Wales.


• We're on Facebook Learn to Draw Right now has a page on Facebook so drop and see what's there...
  
  
• Drawing Matters Facebook Group has now been created so why not join it and keep in touch with fellow artists around the world...
  
  
• Virtual Life Class Judy Purbeck is a British artist who has been teaching life drawing for 10 years and she shares some drawing advice.

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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 (www.drawright.com)

Course Dates 2010

• 35 Hours of teaching
• The Drawing Portfolio (RRP over £70).
  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.

• 35 Hours of teaching
• The Drawing Portfolio (RRP Over £70).
  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.

• 35 Hours of teaching
• The Drawing Portfolio (RRP Over £70).
  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.
• The Course Fee does not include accommodation or full board. There is an additional cost for this which varies depending on the room.

Find out more and how to book here

To find out more about how the course is structured and what you will learn, click here

For further information and a booking form, click 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)

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Also, there is now a DRAWING MATTERS FACEBOOK GROUP page you can join. This is interactive and like any group is only as good as its contributors so this is the place you can ask questions, answer other people's questions, share tips etc etc.

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Virtual Life Class: Judy Purbeck

• Doing some quick 5 minute warm-ups is a must for life drawing. It is the same principle as when you go to the gym or for a run. In drawing you need to wake-up your hand/eye co-ordination.
• Short warm-ups are very different to longer poses where you want to take time to set up your drawing and check relationships by measuring.
• 5-minute poses don’t have to be accurate but should add something about what you are trying to do eg convey information about emotion, or about light…
• Imagine you have x-ray vision - Seeing the spine through the front of the body. The shape of the spine influences the front so you need to consider that.
• Think about where you are sitting/standing and change or experiment with your viewpoint. For example, go to the floor if you always stand and vice versa.
• If you are drawing a pose such as the head in hands type, you still have to draw the whole head even if you can’t see it. If you just draw the hands it does not work.
• Look for shapes between the arms and the body, the head, the neck and shoulders. Always look for the negative shapes.
• Negative space is where the model isn’t and it can be easier to place arms and legs if you focus on where they are not.
• You must look at where parts of the body connect and override what your brain tells you.
• Look for landmarks such as the navel, nipple, fold above hip etc – these all help to show how the body is twisted and where things are in relation to other parts.
• When you are drawing a very foreshortened pose such as lying down, you must look at the shapes of the body in a more abstract way – as a landscape. These are exciting poses to draw but you have to challenge what your brain tells you.
• When drawing a foreshortened pose you really need to look and concentrate on what is really there. But don’t be scared of it – it’s exciting.
• Don’t have a preconceived idea in your mind about what you want your finished drawing to look like. It’s hard to draw to order.
• There is no worse thing you can do in life drawing than say you want to draw like Michelangelo. You need to draw in your own style and you’ll find that emerging the more you do it.
• Consider where and how light is falling on the body. What is in shadow and what is in light? The light and shadow shapes will create the form of the body.
• When you are working tonally, squint around the figure and you will see more clearly the shape of the shadows.
• What do you like in your model? There is always an emotional bond between the artist and the model. Remember that it is difficult for them – they have to concentrate to sit still.
• Don’t ignore the feet. Feet have lots of personality and you could do a portrait of something just by focusing on the feet so they deserve to have as much attention paid to them as the face.
• Finally, If you go to a life drawing class every week you will improve rapidly. If you can draw a figure you can draw anything.

NEXT MONTH
Next month will be the last artist in the series: Gary Hume, who was a Turner Prize nominee and represented Britain in the 1999 Venice Biennale.

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