THE LANGUAGE OF DRAWING



Continue to draw for long before you think of painting. When one builds on a solid foundation one can sleep at ease.
Ingres 1780 -1867 

This course seeks to re-establish the centrality of drawing to art practise. Using everyday objects, we will learn how to measure and to accurately depict our world. We will learn which marks to use when we wish to evoke light and shade, for example, or when we wish to create texture or movement. We will learn how to create spatial depth using the rules of perspective and discover what is meant by chiaroscuro and sfumato. We will come to understand the difference between line and tone, and study the fine difference between reality and abstraction. But we will also play, for in play, we may discover how drawing can help us to create a language that is uniquely our own.

Continue to draw for long before you think of painting. When one builds on a solid foundation one can sleep at ease.
Ingres 1780 -1867

Where:
Dillington House
Ilminster
Somerset
TA19 9DT

When:
Tea, Tuesday 28 August to breakfast 1 September 2012


Cost:
Non-Resident £263
Resident from £469

Booking:
Please contact Dillington House during office hours. 
01460 258613 or 01460 258648
dillington@somerset.gov.uk

For more information, visit Dillington House website or contact David.

Without drawing, we cannot even begin to visualise our ideas. Without drawing, we cannot think of painting or wielding a brush with confidence. Without drawing, our art is impoverished.

From Leonardo to Ingres to Hockney, artists have always understood that drawing was fundamental to their art. Today, drawing is not held in such high esteem and commonly regarded as a child’s pastime or an out-moded leisure pursuit to be practised only by the gifted. According to John Ruskin, however, the true purpose of drawing is to enable us to become more intimate with the world around us. For many of us, as children, it comes before speech. Drawing is, in fact, our first language. Having lost the ability to draw as we become adults, it may well have to be learned again, but to master it is not beyond the reach of the majority of us. Like any other language, it has its rules, its conventions and its grammar. This course seeks to discover and to practice those rules, so that we may once again become fluent speakers of the language of drawing.