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NEAC School of Drawing Curator:
Charles Williams |
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Drawing School
Staffed entirely by members of the NEAC, many of whom have a wealth of teaching experience, the Drawing School offers a thorough and sound approach to drawing in its many forms, with small classes to ensure a personal and individual tutor/student relationship.
The Drawing School is at the heart of what the NEAC represents. We run classes in the inspirational surroundings of The Royal Academy Life Room, on Wednesday evenings between 5.30 and 7.30 during RA Schools term time, and on some Saturdays. We also run short courses at various venues, mainly in London, on drawing, sketching en plein air, and working from drawing to painting. Courses are constantly in development, so please bookmark this page and check back regularly to keep up-to-date. We will also be advertising courses in the Friends’ Newsletter, available biannually.
Spring/Summer 2010 classes
now available
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In the inspirational surroundings of the Royal Academy Life Room, designed specifically for the practice of life drawing, Charles Williams will take students through a series of exercises and other challenges designed to develop and define what drawing means to each student.
Please do not contact the RA Schools for information.
Dates
Spring/Summer Term 21st April to 16th June 2010 at the RA Schools Life Room.
Time
Wednesdays 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
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Paul Newland, Head of Education with the Royal Watercolour Society, has been a member of the NEAC for some years and always impresses with his carefully judged observational painting. In this course, Paul will be looking at tone in observation.
Dates
6th and 13th March 2010
Time
11.00am – 4.00pm
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
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This indoor course based at The Courtauld Institute will take an intense look at, and study, particular works by great painters including: Cezanne, Monet, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Bonnard, Matisse, Van Dongen, Sickert, Nicholson, Sutherland and Hitchens. You will be able to make direct copies/transcriptions and notes in sketchbooks and work with colour.
Numbers are limited to eight and you can either book a single day, or book both days and work in greater depth. There is a good café/restaurant just across the courtyard.
Duncan will give an introductory tour around the gallery and then students will work from the paintings. Individual guidance will be given. Duncan Wood is a very experienced teacher and has taught at London University, the Royal Academy Schools and is currently a faculty member and tutor at The Prince’s School Of Drawing and exhibits his work with Browse And Darby.
Dates
10th and 17th March 2010
Time
10.30am-12.30pm (Lunch 12.30pm-1.30pm) 1.30pm-4.00pm.
Venue
The Courtauld Institute
Somerset House
150 Strand
Charing Cross
London
WC2R ORN
COST: £90 for 2 days or £45 per day
Plus £5 admission fee on the door
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Karn Holly NEAC, founder member and leading light of the Drawing School, returns to teaching for a three Saturday special, after a long, enforced break. Karn's highly articulate and sharply focused approach is treasured by all who have experienced her teaching, and this will be a treat.
Three days' study in the magnificent Drawing Schools amphitheatre at the Royal Academy.
Each day will take the form of practical work and include a short lecture and discussion touching on wider issues of objective drawing and its functions, in developing a thoughtful and articulate approach in each students personal development. A life model will be on hand. Sessions aim to be stimulating, and thought -provoking, but not for beginners.
Dates
1st, 8th and 15th May 2010
Time
11.00am – 4.00pm
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
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Summer Courses
After last year’s successful three-day courses at the Bankside, we have decided to put on another two courses, outside again, and with the same teachers. In both cases there is a “rainy-day option”, and in each case there is a mix of studying from one of London’s great collections, the V&A and Kenwood House.
In the morning, 10.30 – 12.00, students will look at Constable drawings and sketchbooks in the V & A’s Department of Prints and Drawings. After that we will look at the Museum’s collection of Constable’s wonderful small oil sketches, painted out of doors. Inspired by the Master (we hope) we will then paint and draw near the Serpentine in Hyde Park, a 10 minute walk from the V & A.
Nearest tube South Kensington. There are lockers available at the V&A, so you can store your work safely.
Dates
16th to 18th June 2010
Time
10.30am – 4.00pm
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A simple, thorough introduction to all the elements of Life Drawing from Julie Jackson NEAC, a former Drawing School Scholar and highly experienced drawing tutor. The class will be working exclusively from the life, and will be suitable for all abilities.
Julie is taking the NEAC Drawing School Road Show to Art In Action this Summer, proselytising for the cause of observational drawing, as well as the leading the landscape painting course based at Kenwood House in July.
'These Saturdays are an opportunity to further your understanding of drawing from the model in this historic and atmospheric life room. I will offer guidance with tone, form, mass, space and simple perspective. We will warm up with short dynamic poses, drawing with economy and speed, followed by long poses that will allow time to stimulate and discover your individual response. Different mediums, colour various paper sizes are all encouraged.'
Dates
5th, 12th and 19th June 2010
Time
11.00am – 4.00pm
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
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This course will allow the student to explore the subject in depth, with the expert guidance of past President of the NEAC Thomas Coates and drawing specialist Julie Jackson. The Kenwood House collection on Hampstead Heath is home to one of the great Rembrandt self-portraits, among other excellent paintings, and time will be spent studying in the collection as well as painting and drawing on the Heath. There is safe storage in Kenwood House, so students may leave their equipment overnight, and we have the use of a studio in case of inclement weather.
Dates
5th to 8th July 2010
Time
10.30am – 4.00pm
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Discounts and Concessions
- 10% off the total booking price for Friends of the NEAC
- 10% off the total booking price for full-time students
- 20% off the total booking price of RA Saturday classes if all 5 classes are booked
- 10% off the total booking price if both Bankside Gallery workshops are booked
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Need more information?
Piers Grizzelle
NEAC Drawing School
2 Royal Road,
Teddington
Middx
TW11 0SB
Tel: 020 8287 5208
Email:
Charles Williams ARWS NEAC
Tel: 07730 489052
Directions to the Royal Academy Schools Life Room: from outside the gates of the RA, on Piccadilly, look to your left to Burlington Arcade. Go up Burlington Arcade, and, at its other end, turn right. Turn right again, down the first small road that you come to. Follow that down to the back of the RA, and the RA Schools are behind the first door. They are signposted. Ask at the Porter’s Lodge for the Life Room.
Please do not contact the RA Schools for information. |
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