During our 2017 Annual Exhibition we have an exciting and varied range of events to suit all interests and abilities, including a limited number of workshops with a ticket price of just £5 (a nominal fee to cover our admin costs). The usual price of these events is £50+ so this is a great opportunity to experience New English Classes & Workshops on a shoestring.
Neil Pittaway began the workshop with introductions and then a quick continuous line drawing exercise. He followed this with a demonstration - creating textures and surfaces using different drawing media. Students then prepared an abstract surface using these techniques and took the drawings out onto The Mall where they drew Admiralty Arch - drawing the subject in 20 lines. After this they started another drawing of the same subject using construction lines and angles...
Charles Williams' work is very like short stories. He tries to cram everything he is thinking about, other paintings old and new, newspaper stories, what he saw on his holidays or when he last went to the shops into each painting. We spoke to Charles who told us more about the story behind these stories . . .
