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Portrait and hands breakdown, teenage class up
Hi everybody, just going to load up a load of images here on the breakdown of portraits and hands, just knock yourselves out. Get Yourselves a Sketchbook and start working, practice makes perfect, Just Enjoy, well within your capabilities. Work with as many mediums...
Portfolio Post – NCAD Portfolio submission and criteria for LSAD Portfolio
The portfolio for NCAD is very different than the portfolio for example, Limerick School of Art. LCAD portfolio submission consists of 15 A1 pages displaying all of your skills, from life drawing, portraits, seascapes, landscapes, still life, animation, and sketch...
Teaching module 4 – How to draw using shape, young children – Pointillism
Pointillism is a very easy art form, basically all you do is get your brush and put it in the paint and dab the paint brush on the page. Very effective, easy and fun great for young kids. The following are examples, for quick fun work, all kids can do. I will show...
Teaching Module 3 – Tone and form
Anybody who has ever been in my class knows that my favourite word is TONE, OR SHOULD I SAY LACK OF TONE. What is tone? In art, the term “tone” describes the quality of colour. It has to do with whether a colour is perceived as warm or cold, bright or dull, light...
Teaching Module 2 – How to draw a basic portrait
Your Materials for this composition Hi this is the second teaching module on how to draw a basic portrait. Portraiture is a very important area in art, for a secondary student if you are very good at portraits you are practically...
Teaching Module 1 – How to draw figures in different positions.
Hi everybody in this very difficult time, lets do the best we can. I will be posting teaching modules up on this blog for the for seeable future, so you can all get stuck in and keep your drawing skills up to a high level. Hope you are all well and happy. By the way...
January term 2020 / Texaco Childrens Art competition
Texaco Children's Art Competition 2020 Congratulations to all the great entries for the Texaco Children's Art competition. This term was taken up with creating Texaco submissions so a lot of portraits were completed with the younger children creating drawings and...
Christmas 2019 Term
Children 5 to 7 years of age CLASS TIMES Friday 4pm - 6pm This class was created in September 2019 to cater for very young children, teaching them the fundamentals of drawing, painting and craft. We started off drawing, just to get them into drawing techniques...