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Faces – the Gambrell way
Enchanted by faces? Like to tell a story with a look? Or if you simply enjoy drawing your friends and family - this 6 week course will take you from the foundations of proportions to handling materials, controlling mood and expressing character through colour and mark-making – the Gambrell way.
Dates: Saturdays September 7, 14, 21, 28 October 5, 12
Time: 1600-1800 (London time)
Week 1 – Proportions and placement
Learning about scale and simple ways to measure and convey features in a way that captures the feel of a subject.
Week 2 – Preparation
Studying the reference. Learning to familiarise yourself with photo reference to be best equipped to produce the face.
Week 3 - Form through tone and texture
Using soft pastel and oil pastel, we’ll explore effective ways of creating volume using both light and dark and textural techniques.
Week 4 - Colour
Mood through control of temperature – this acrylic-based session will build on the use of tone with the addition of temperature in colour giving you extra tools to control mood and atmosphere.
Week 5 - Mark making and style
For more expressive portraits – we’ll explore different styles of portraiture and make use of skills introduced so far.
Week 6 - Putting it all together
We will finish the course by using the techniques taught in lessons 1-5 to produce our own individual 90minutes face drawings – during which I will give feedback around the group.
Format: 6 x Zoom classes of 120 minutes with demos, Q&As and community forum on Discord
(all classes - Saturdays 1600-1800 GMT) - all classes recorded so you can catch up or watch again – available for 12 months after the course.
Who is it for: Artists of all levels
Participants must be 18 years of age or over
Materials – required:
Soft pastels (set of at least 20 varying colours)
Acrylics (Primaries yellow, red, blue then also white - will be enough to mix)
Paper A4 and A3 size - mixed media paper for the acrylics – heavy weight 200gsm or more
Paper A4 and A3 size – for dry media 90gsm is fine – a sketchbook of about 30 pages is good.
Palette for paint, at least a fine brush (4 or 6) and something broader (perhaps a 12) should be fine but a selection of different sizes would be great.
Not required but suggested: a selection of different general dry media such as pencil crayons or markers and basic set of oil pastels.
Pricing:
Standard tier £125.00 - includes all of the above
Feedback tier £195.00 (limited space 6 remaining) - includes all of the above + personalised weekly feedback and private discord channel
Previous courses I've taught:
SUMMER Drawing course
FORM Drawing course
SHAPE Drawing course
Bring play into your work 1 & 2 (with Riso chan)
Bring colour into your work (with Riso chan)
FIDA - Fashion illustration lecturer
DOMESTIKA – Expressive pastel portraits
What students have said about my courses:
Student from the SUMMER course: "I have to say this class has some of the most useful information on color I've heard in a long long time. Will definitely rewatch it! Thank you for a great class."
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Student from the SHAPE course: "You actually, really teach, with a clear curriculum." and "please do more classes! I've taken tons in the past few years, and you are, hands-down, the best Zoom teacher I've seen.'
Student from the SHAPE course: "I really like your approach because you didn't reference other teachers - it is truly unique and more valuable. I appreciate all the pre work you do, your powerpoints and videos. I will be referring to them again and again and I will be back for more."