4-WEEK ONLINE COURSE
Explore how mindfulness can enrich the process of drawing, as we encounter a range of approaches to making abstract drawings, with reference to artist’s work. This course offers a great introduction to mindful drawing or ways to explore it more deeply. A practical drawing course exploring the visual language of abstraction, with reference to colour, composition, tone and layering.
Dates: 4/6/26 - 25/6/26
Day: Thursday 6-9pm
What is the course about?
Learning how mindfulness can stimulate, support and enhance your creativity
Exploring different pathways into making abstract drawings
Providing a stimulating atmosphere for personal discovery
Encouraging an imaginative, sensitive and individual handling of drawing materials
Becoming familiar with visual language by looking at a variety of artists' work
What will we cover?
Mindfulness skills and practices to inspire new directions and help you to draw with more confidence and enjoyment (less ‘inner critic’!)
A range of methods for arriving at abstraction e.g. starting from observation, sensory perception, chance, conceptual systems and the imagination.
Ideas and practices re: visual language in drawing: colour, composition, tone and layering
Discover a range of artists drawings to inspire your work
Key ideas on how mindfulness works, with reference to scientific theory
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
Apply a range of mindfulness skills in drawing to ignite your creativity and inspiration
Identify materials and subject matter that inspire you
Select the pictorial and material means with which to express a range of ideas, sensations and emotions
Become increasingly confident with your use of materials, colour and composition
Practice mindfulness to help you identify creative blocks and let go of them
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This is a course for anyone with an open mind and/or some basic drawing or painting skills.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
You will be guided through several processes to produce abstract drawings referring to specific artists or genres. Experimentation will be encouraged.
There will be guided mindfulness practices, demonstration of drawing methods, practical projects, individual guidance and encouragement, group discussion and examination of artists' work.
Materials you will need:
Pencil, graphite sticks, water-soluble graphite, willow charcoal, coloured pastels, eraser, pencil sharpener, a small range of coloured inks, brushes, 30 sheets cartridge paper e.g. A2 or A3, plus any other drawing materials you’d like to use.