'Drawing Hands like the Old Masters'

A Two - Day Masterclass

from Rembrandt to Egon Schiele and beyond...

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Everyone finds hands hard to draw, but what part of the body has more expressive potential?

In this beginner-friendly, you will learn techniques to make drawing hands easier and create drawings inspired by masters of the craft.

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What We'll Do

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• beginner-friendly drawing techniques

• step-by-step methods to break the hand down into easy-to-draw blocks

• hand anatomy (for those interested)

• the expressive and symbolic possibilities of hands

• posing hands

• hands in art history

 

 

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What you will learn:

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• drawing techniques which are transferable to any subject matter

• your own beautiful drawings of hands in various lovely poses to show off and put on you wall

• The confidence to tackle drawing one of the more challenging parts of the body

• An enriched idea hands in art history

 

Day 1:

• fun exercises

• drawing basics

• anatomy

• art history

• working from old masters and contemporary artists as an introduction to the method​

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Day 2:

• Using what we learnt on day one to create drawings live from models.

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Who is this course for?

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While most students who attend our classes start as beginners or intermediate, this course is also welcoming to advanced students. You will be taught one-to-one as well as as a group.

 

 

About your tutor: 

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Edith Dormandy is a contemporary artist with a classical training. She graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2024 where she was supported by the Vice Chancellor's Achievement Award and where she won the Colart Materials Prize. She has been working as an artist and teacher for several years. She studied a Classical Western drawing and painting technique at The London Atelier of Representational Art from 2016-2020, supported by the ARC First Place Scholarship. Before that she gained a first-class Art History BA at UCL in 2016, achieving a place on the Dean's list for overall high marks. She has exhibited widely and has work in collections around the world. She loves teaching.

Instagram @edithdormandy

website www.edithdormandy.co.uk

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