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Summer School / Drawing: Immersive Narratives tutors, Rebecca Harper and Melissa Kime consider the role an archive of source material can have in the creative process. They give students an ...

The Foundation Year is an important journey of creative growth, three of our graduating students reflect on their motivations for starting that journey, how the School helped them along that ...

Painting: Portraits and Self-Portraits tutor Sophie Charalambous sets some exercises that explore the use of light and dark in creating dramatic portraits.

Painting: Portraits and Self-Portraits tutor, Ian Rowlands discusses why you might want to use a subjective palette when painting a portrait and how to choose it.

Here Painting a Head tutor, Robert Dukes discusses the challenges of relating the model to their surroundings and suggests an exercise to help students consider how to place figures in ...

Tutor Rossen Daskalov takes you through the different processes you can use to build up a multi-layered print with press-free techniques. Rossen will be teaching on The Drawing Marathon this ...

Drawing Year alumna Nell Brookfield has just finished her last term at the Pratt Institute in New York where she experienced both online learning and teaching. Nell talks about how ...

Young Artists tutor Paul Fenner wants young artists to explore their surroundings using the power of memory and drawing.

Drawing: Composition and Colour tutor, Will Topley introduces us to the Claude Glass and explains how it simplifies the tonal range and break downs an observable scene into manageable shapes. ...

Irene Montemurro is the recipient of the Denis Mahon Award 2020. Presented to one outgoing Drawing Year student annually, the award allows them to continue their practice, providing them with ...

Clare Newbolt, who is teaching Drawing Landscapes, Gardens and Natural Forms, asks us to embed our changing sensibilities in the natural forms we are drawing.

Here Sarah Lightman, guest tutor for Summer Term Online (Drawing Graphic Narratives), discusses diary drawing and how we might use it to tell our personal day-to-day experiences.