Hello, Welcome to the October newsletter. I am delighted to announce some course dates for 2010 below. I know some of you have been waiting patiently for these. 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 Betty Edwards. This includes links for viewing a slideshow of participants' work and reading course feedback.


• Course Dates for 2010 Registration is now 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 John Berger regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century began his career as a painter and he shares some drawing tips.

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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).
  All the materials you will need for the course, including drawing tools unique to Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. The Portfolio and its contents are yours to take home and keep.

• 35 Hours of teaching
• The Drawing Portfolio (RRP Over £70).
  All the materials you will need for the course, including drawing tools unique to Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. The Portfolio and its contents are yours to take home and keep.

• 35 Hours of teaching
• The Drawing Portfolio (RRP Over £70).
  All the materials you will need for the course, including drawing tools unique to Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. 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.

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.

The group is in its infancy so don't be shy... Facebook is free to join and you can visit the group here

Virtual Life Class: John Berger

• Life drawing If you are looking at something and that thing is a person – a naked person – after a moment, if you let it happen you will want to be active rather than just be passively looking. One way of being is by drawing what you see. The nakedness of the subject implies a kind of intimacy. At the same time, when we are naked what we have in common becomes more evident… more universal. So there is a strong coming together of the intimate and the human – the universality of all of us – that is essentially what life drawing is about.
• The relationship between the artist and the model When drawing people – whether it is a portrait or the figure – the contribution of the model/sitter is an active collaboration. It is not about taking the ‘right’ pose or keeping still. It’s about the artist being receptive and the model can send the artist a message to encourage receptivity.
• The process of drawing the figure When you are looking at the pose it is like a written word – perhaps several words: angle; weight; poise…
  You proceed from one to the next.
  Think in terms of ‘bridges’. See the road of leg connecting to the back… draw this.
  As you look, forget about naming parts of the body because what we are concerned about is movement/stillness and something that resembles a landscape – a bodyscape. Maybe bodies have their own weather too.
  Look for weight; a sense of groundedness of parts of the body. Note the difference between difference parts of the body. Look at those areas bearing the weight and those which are not.
  Sometimes you have to let yourself go into your confusion.
• Seeing in the roundIt can be interesting to take a pose and drop it from one side and then draw it from the other ie. In reverse
• The role of the eraser Erasers are often connected to mistakes. Perhaps it begins in school with the idea that erasers are connected with making a mistake. What you have to erase is just as creative as what you have to put in. Sometimes it is with erasing that you re-find the essential. You discover what is worth seeing. This is the paradox.
• Everyone can draw in their own way.

NEXT MONTH
Judy Purbeck, artist and teacher of life drawing



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