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Painting

Measured Drawing: Lesson 5

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Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.

About Paint Club

Making a Livelier Drawing: Lesson 4

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Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush.

Field Notes: Lesson 7

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Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.

With Colour: Lesson 6

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Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers. 

The Edge of the Pencil: Lesson 2

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Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.

Toned Paper: Lesson 3

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Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.

Creativity: Lesson 8

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Lesson 8. Invention!

The Elements of Drawing

Paint Club at Tate Britain Friday 7th March 'There's a Ghost in my House'

Paint Club and Tate present:There's a Ghost in my House'  1 pm Friday 7th March Clore Auditorium Tate Britain

Video Of 'There a Ghost in my House', Paint Club at Tate Britain, March 7th 2014

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Ann-Marie James, Andrew Cranston and Dougal McKenzie discuss their choice of paintings in the new Tate Britain displays, in relation to their own painting practice, chaired by Dr Jo Melvi