Class details
How to Draw Surface Tension is on Thursday 21 May
2 – 4pm
Fee – £10
Learn how to draw Surface Tension and make your artwork come to life.
This week artist and tutor, Sheila Moylan explores the techniques you need to create textures and surfaces in your pencil drawings.
Equipment required:
- a good range of B pencils
- sharpener
- rubber
- paper/drawing pad
- two items / areas at home
No matter your artistic experience, if you are interested in improving your drawing technique, join Sheila for a two hour workshop.
Are you interested? Book your place below and we’ll send you the link to log on.
Exercise Preparation
Choose two different items in your home.
One item should be highly reflective so that you can at least see the window reflected in the item. Examples: sunglasses, patent shoes, coffee cup, silver spoon, Christmas bauble. You can not use mirrors or flat glass surfaces.
Your second item must have texture. It can be beautiful and soft such as a plain knitted item, silk scarf; or jagged in texture such as a piece of carpet or sweeping brush head, gardening gloves or even the surface of an unvarnished coffee table. Be careful not to choose a heavily patterned object; that may distract you from its shape.
Find a way to put these two objects together to create a still life.
About the tutor
Sheila Moylan has a B.A. (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture and Psychology from UEL where she focused on body casting and self portraiture graduating in 1995. She has worked creatively with young people for most of her career mainly in schools at one point running an alternative programme to GCSE in Richmond making art the main subject. Since 2015 has worked within Ealing running art classes for adults with learning difficulties for local charity Artification and for the last year has successfully run Life Drawing classes at OPEN Ealing including piloting a Life Drawing for Beginners and Sculpture for Beginners class and childrens classes. Her approach is inclusive supportive and encouraging to even absolute beginners.
She has exhibited her work at Slaughterhouse Gallery Smithfield, Orleans House Gallery Richmond and more recently the W3 Gallery in Acton, but mainly works on commission.
She is also a musician, harpist and singer performing at small venues in and around London.
