Event Phone: (07) 3286 5360

Join artist Manuela Pilz (TAS) in this 2-day weekend workshop and explore a fun way to draw the figure and portrait with a costumed model in a long pose.
With step-by-step demonstrations each day, participants will have the opportunity to learn about how to draw a head from many different angles, consider how to compose your portrait on the page, deal with the light and how it hits both the head and the clothing of the upper body, and learn how to draw features of the face. This will all be done with black and white charcoal on toned paper to get dramatic and fast results.
Do not worry if you have never drawn a person from life before as Manuela has designed a programme that helps practice the key skills in the morning before the model arrives. You will be working from photos in the morning and from the model in the afternoon.

MATERIAL LIST:
Important: Please do not buy any Montmartre brand of art materials
• Staedtler Mars Lumograph graphite pencils 5H, 2H, H, HB, B, 2B, 4B, 6B
• General’s Charcoal pencils HB (hard), 2B (medium), 4B (soft)
• General’s White charcoal pencil
• Coates willow charcoal mixed.
• 4 sheets of A2 Cansons Mi Tientes pastel paper in mid toned colours. Manuela recommends for a classical look, the light blue, steel grey, flannel grey and moonstone. For a more dramatic effect strong colours can be used but they should have a medium tone range and not be too dark.
• Several sheets of cartridge paper Quill A3 or something similar to practice and make notes.
• Kneadable eraser
• Tombow precision eraser
• Hard eraser
• Pencil sharpener
• Sandpaper
• Stanley Knife or blade for sharpening
• Scissors
• Drawing board
• 4 x butterfly clips
• Artist’s masking tape
• A measuring stick: a knitting needle or a wooden skewer that is straight
• A portfolio to keep your drawings in
• Fixative Spray
• A small mirror

All Materials for this workshop can be purchased from Shore Studio Art Supplies