This is a 6 week course, running on Wednesday evenings 7pm – 9.30pm.

About the course
Create beautiful realist drawings in coloured pastel and charcoal. This course is structured with a series of short exercises focusing on application techniques. Drawing from a variety of subject matter we will work our way through tone, form, coloured ground use and working with colour. Following these exercises, participants will have the opportunity to work on a 3-week pastel drawing of their choice with individual feedback and guidance.
Source imagery will be supplied for the first three weeks of the course, Including still life, portrait and landscape. For week 4, participants are encouraged to bring in their own photographic image to work from. An option can be supplied if required for the later weeks.
This course is suitable those with basic drawing experience who may not have worked with pastels before and those who have complete previous pastel workshops with Jess and are looking to further develop their pastel drawing skills.

Materials
– Faber Castell mini 24 soft Pastels or other soft pastels if you have them already (please bring them in week 1 to check colours)
– Thin willow charcoal x 2 sticks
– Hard plastic eraser
– 30 cm ruler
– HB graphite pencil
– 1x sheet A4 white cartridge paper.
– 1 x sheet glassine paper * optional (to protect your drawings)
– 1 x sheet Art Spectrum colourfix Paper Original. Colour – Soft Umber or similar
– 1 x sheet Canson Mi- Teintes – colour- Bisque or similar.
– Dust mask * optional
– Board (wooden or cardboard) approx. A3 will be handy for transporting/ working on.