Art for Everyone at Edinburgh Drawing School

Charcoal Drawing by Siri France
Charcoal Drawing by Siri France

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Autumn Term

From: 18 Sep 2023

To: 8 Dec 2023

Venue:
Edinburgh Drawing School
13a Great King St
Edinburgh
Edinburgh & the Lothians
EH3 6QW

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Edinburgh Drawing School‘s programme for this autumn is an enormous array of vibrant courses and workshops, for adults and children throughout the day and evening, Monday – Saturday:

Building Blocks by Lucy Fyffe Parham
Lucy Fyffe Parham, ‘Building Blocks’

Mondays: Introduction to Watercolours; Techniques of The Masters; Drop-In Life Drawing

Tuesdays: Children’s Drawing with Jaya Cauchy Ogilvie; Drawing for Beginners; Oil Portrait Painting; Post Beginners Drawing

Vincent Van Gogh, 'Van Gogh's Chair'
Vincent Van Gogh, ‘Van Gogh’s Chair’

Wednesdays: Floral Watercolours (two sessions); Art History; All-Year Life Drawing; Expressive Watercolour Landscapes online; Drop-In Life Drawing

Thursdays: Introduction to Drawing; Drawing the Clothed Figure; Teens Class; Illustration Storytelling & Design; Introduction to Life Drawing; Expressive Fluid Acrylics online

Fridays: Still Life Painting Water Soluble Oils; Life drawing: Contemporary; Adults – FUNdamentals of Drawing; Portrait Drawing 1, Portrait Drawing 2.

Saturdays: Travel Sketchbook; All Year Life Drawing (two sessions); Drop-In Life Drawing

John Singer Sargent, 'Lady Agnew of Lochnaw'
John Singer Sargent, ‘Lady Agnew of Lochnaw’

There is a series of History of Art lectures, held in collaboration with The University of Edinburgh, Weds evenings 4th Oct – 6th Dec: Building New Town, Edinburgh, Artworks in Everyday Edinburgh; An Exploration of Greek Art: Contrasting the High Classical and Hellenistic Periods, From Mural to Canvas, Chinese painting from the Late Qing Dynasty until the end of the Republic, Japanese Buddhist Art, The Independent and Renaissance landscape of Albrecht Altdorfer, The Pre-Raphaelites in France, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent, and The Scottish Colourists.

And these lectures have already been penned-in for Spring Term next year: Shaping Modernity: Artistic Rebellion after WWI; Abstract Expressionism: As an Emotional Refuge; Simon Berger’s Art of Shattering, and The Dutch Golden Age.

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