ONLINE The Importance of Negative Space: Using Black for Impact - Starts Tues 18th July at 2pm
SKU:
PSP1807aa25
£85.00
£85.00
per item
BOOKING DEADLINE: Tues 20th June at 12pm UK TIME
If you wish to take part but are unable to attend the workshop demos live, please select the recording only option below.
All students will be given access to watch our video playback service of this series for 60 days.
Tutor: Pat Southern-Pearce
Tues 18th July 2pm - 4pm
Tues 25th July 2pm - 4pm
(UK time)
This two-part series of LivePlus™ online workshops is suitable for students of all levels. These are work-along workshops and so we would encourage students to have their materials to hand, ready to participate live during each class.
Workshop details
It’s all too easy to settle to draw outside, in the fresh air and be overwhelmed by all there is to see and all there is to draw. Often as not, folk will respond by putting everything in, leaving no space or breath for the eye to rest, and the drawing lacks impact.
In an an earlier Ardington series, Pat looked at Less is More: not drawing every brick, not drawing every tree. This two-part course will consolidate this, for new folk and returners, but briefly only as an underpinning. Then she will share with you the power, strength and potential of negative space.
Negative space brings focus, punctuates a drawing, leads you into it and through it. And, if used thoughtfully and confidently, can pull all the elements of a piece, together, like a dance…
Over the two sessions, suitable for beginners and experienced alike, Pat will lead you through the process of looking for darks, with different eyes: to see and capture the interplay of blacks before you, some less obvious than others but all working together to form a balanced, breathing whole. Pat will have you spot the obvious first, putting these in. Then moving onto more searching looking, for negative darks in unexpected places: the ones so often missed, the ones that can often make all the difference. ..and add so much extra interest.
If used well, darks and negative spaces can be amazingly strong and effective. Pat will give you the confidence to search both out, use them adroitly and bring more power to your work. You will also, keeping the-power-of-dark theme going, move on from this to look at shadow darks and the punch and atmosphere that can be achieved if we enrich these with blues. A sense of place, depth and much more of a feeling of “being there” will be created... and very easily.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop
Equipment & materials list
Materials are not included in the course fee. All the materials and equipment you will need are listed below.
Suggested suppliers
Additional Information
All Ardington ONLINE classes and talks are accompanied by their own online blackboard. Helpful and easy to use, they enable students and tutors to share resources, ideas and photos with each other – just as you would in a classroom environment.
Pat will offer personalised critique / feedback via the blackboard for any work uploaded by students within thirty days of the final class ending. You will be sent the link to access your blackboard in the week before your class begins and will have access for at least sixty days after the class ends.
After the live session has finished on Zoom, we will share the link to view the recording on the blackboard. You can watch the recording as many times as you like for sixty days.
Tues 18th July 2pm - 4pm
Tues 25th July 2pm - 4pm
(UK time)
This two-part series of LivePlus™ online workshops is suitable for students of all levels. These are work-along workshops and so we would encourage students to have their materials to hand, ready to participate live during each class.
Workshop details
It’s all too easy to settle to draw outside, in the fresh air and be overwhelmed by all there is to see and all there is to draw. Often as not, folk will respond by putting everything in, leaving no space or breath for the eye to rest, and the drawing lacks impact.
In an an earlier Ardington series, Pat looked at Less is More: not drawing every brick, not drawing every tree. This two-part course will consolidate this, for new folk and returners, but briefly only as an underpinning. Then she will share with you the power, strength and potential of negative space.
Negative space brings focus, punctuates a drawing, leads you into it and through it. And, if used thoughtfully and confidently, can pull all the elements of a piece, together, like a dance…
Over the two sessions, suitable for beginners and experienced alike, Pat will lead you through the process of looking for darks, with different eyes: to see and capture the interplay of blacks before you, some less obvious than others but all working together to form a balanced, breathing whole. Pat will have you spot the obvious first, putting these in. Then moving onto more searching looking, for negative darks in unexpected places: the ones so often missed, the ones that can often make all the difference. ..and add so much extra interest.
If used well, darks and negative spaces can be amazingly strong and effective. Pat will give you the confidence to search both out, use them adroitly and bring more power to your work. You will also, keeping the-power-of-dark theme going, move on from this to look at shadow darks and the punch and atmosphere that can be achieved if we enrich these with blues. A sense of place, depth and much more of a feeling of “being there” will be created... and very easily.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop
- Guided, focussed looking
- Decision-making: choices
- Precise-edged drawing of dark details
- Searching for dark/light contrasts
- Leaving things out to create breathe
- Studying shadows and enriching these: moving on from just dead black
- Creating a punctuation of darks, like a dance
- Learning how blues and blacks together can enrich each other and bring depth
Equipment & materials list
Materials are not included in the course fee. All the materials and equipment you will need are listed below.
- Grey/kraft paper A4 or larger
- Soft pencil 6B or 8B or Staedtler Mars Lumograph ( black body)
- Fountain pen + black ink
- Fineliner black
- Black felt tipped pen medium
- White Mitsubishi Signo uniball
- Peter Pauper Bible Highlighters
- Caran D’Ache or Holbein or other creamy coloured pencils, light and mid blue, cream, turquoise, black, royal blue, white
Suggested suppliers
- Amazon UK - Peter Pauper watercolour crayons
- Jacksons Arts online - Caran D’Ache & Holbein pencils available to purchase singly
- Hobbycraft
Additional Information
All Ardington ONLINE classes and talks are accompanied by their own online blackboard. Helpful and easy to use, they enable students and tutors to share resources, ideas and photos with each other – just as you would in a classroom environment.
Pat will offer personalised critique / feedback via the blackboard for any work uploaded by students within thirty days of the final class ending. You will be sent the link to access your blackboard in the week before your class begins and will have access for at least sixty days after the class ends.
After the live session has finished on Zoom, we will share the link to view the recording on the blackboard. You can watch the recording as many times as you like for sixty days.