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HOW TO DRAW ACCURATELY
Blaise
Smith Drawing Workshop
in Borris House, Borris, County Carlow,
29-31st March 2010
"It
is possible to learn to draw accurately. There is no magic to
it. Certainly, like music some can initially have more flair for
it but everybody can learn simple methods for making an accurate
representation of what they see before them." Blaise
Smith
Working
from the model, Blaise will give participants some solid tools
and techniques in the art of drawing. He will show them how to
produce an accurate measured drawing from life using the tried
and tested methods of the last five centuries. He will also explain
some simple compositional devices and their practical use in making
that days's drawing, such as the initial placement of the figure.
This workshop will focus on giving participants a specific working
method in drawing which will add to their repertoire of tools
and techniques. The
model will sustain the same pose for each day.
As
part of the workshop each participant will receive a simple proportional
divider and plumb line. Participants will be expected to provide
their own drawing or painting materials and paper, however cheap
paper will be provided for rough work. A number of easels will
be provided. Blaise Smith has been living in the Kilkenny area
for the last decade. He is a well known Figurative painter and
is renowned as a
draughtsman of great facility. Much of his work is of the vernacular
Iandscape although he is also a prize winning portrait painter,
exhibiting in the BP portrait award in 2003 and 2004 at the National
Portrait Gallery in London and winning the RHA Kennedy award for
portraiture in 2002, as well as 4 other awards in the RHA. He
has been shortlisted for the Davy Portrait Award 2010 and a prizewinner
in the Arnotts portrait Award. See www.blaisesmith.com
The
workshop will be held in the West Wing; a stand-alone double height
stone building with its own entrances, heating, electricity and
toilet facilities.
Places
are €150
per person
to book your place please contact Elinor Kavanagh on 087-1409154
or elinor@borrishouse.com
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