Intermediate Drawing Class

Intermediate Drawing Class
6 July  -24 August 2011 (6 Sessions)
Wednesday 6, 13, 20 July, and 10, 17, 24 August 2011, 7:30-9:45pm
The Substation Classroom 1
Instructor: Tania De Rozario
Course Fee: $190 (6 sessions)
Material Fee: $50 (additional to be paid to instructor at first session)
Admission: For more information about this course, or to register, contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / registration@substation.org
Requirements: Must have taken The Right Way to Draw

An intermediate drawing workshop created for those who have already acquired the basic fundamentals of drawing, these sessions will develop these skills further through exercises that utilise media such as ink, coloured pastels and a whole new variety of weekly exercises.

About the Instructor

Tania De Rozario is an artist and writer who has exhibited and curated in Amsterdam, San Francisco and across Singapore. A recipient of numerous awards from the National Arts Council, she is the co-founder/curator of Etiquette, Singapore’s first multidisciplinary annual arts event focused on gender issues. This year, she is also one of 38 applicants selected from an international pool of 795, to be a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook, Washington State. When not making work, Tania tutors at LASALLE College of the Arts, teaches drawing at the Substation and writes for the Art & Design section of TimeOut Singapore.

Course Schedule

Session 1
• A re-introduction to self-portraits but this time, using ink and brushes/sticks as a medium, with students drawing from life, instead of from images. With this exercise, student will get a basic feel for the medium of ink and its capabilities in terms of line, tone and texture.

Session 2
• The stylization of images using black and white and the transposition of them onto lino boards. Through this exercise which eventually leads up to a basic introduction of printmaking, students are forced to think about negative and positive space, as well and the simplification of images into linework.

Session 3
• The carving as well as inking of lino boards and the subsequent printing of images onto toned paper introduce a basic printmaking technique to students, bringing relevance to the drawing exercise involving negative and positive space.

Session 4
• An examination of colour using pastels and a method which will find students up to their ears in each others drawings as they move from seat to seat adding to and subtracting from the work of their peers.

Session 5
• An examination of form, speed and visual translation in this introduction to gestural drawing which will find students drawing from a live model.

Session 6
• A free-for-all session which will find students drawing from a live model, using one of more of the techniques learned from the previous 5 sessions.