Expressive Drawing - Online Live

About the Tutor: Cas Holmes

Cas Holmes is an award-winning artist and writer with over thirty years' experience. She trained in the UK at UCA Maidstone and received research fellowships to study in Japan, India and Canada. She teaches internationally and has written 5 books for Batsford on the subject of mixed media/textiles. The most recent are Embroidering the Everyday (2021) and Textile Landscape (2018)

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This course is online. You will be able to join in person online and be able to exchange and interact with other learners as you would in the classroom (speaking and listening).

Your Tutor, Cas Holmes, will offer a combination of demonstrations and discussion in a workshop- based course where students will be encouraged to work individually in applying techniques and develop ideas in mixed media. For those with more experience, you will learn new techniques and improve your skills further. Learners will explore a variety of painting and drawing techniques and take inspiration from different artists and other sources to inform their work.

The course is based on using what we have. The tutor will advise as the course progresses, and things can be adapted.

For this course you will need the following (if you have them):-

- Drawing and painting materials you have to hand to work with, please feel free to include unusual things and favoured materials (for example charcoal, sticks, chunky wax crayons
- Scissors
- Masking tape
- Drawing cartridge or watercolour paper (collection of other papers to draw on such as brown wrapping paper.- Sketchbook- Selection of objects for reference (shells, feathers, plants etc)

You can access the class from your computer equipped with a camera and a microphone, from a laptop (where the camera and microphone should be built-in), a tablet or a smartphone. Before each lesson, the tutor may send you by email essential lesson information/handouts for you to consult in advance, and before the class starts, the tutor will have sent you by email an invitation to join, which will be a simple weblink to click. The system is free and easy to use. Should you have questions about the required equipment, please do not hesitate to contact us by telephone or by email. Instructions are also available on our website www.kentadulteducation.co.uk.

During your course, your tutor will offer guidance in your personal progression route.

This course is a good introduction to painting and drawing courses and for those with some experience of drawing and improvers alike. It is designed to encourage creative expression.

You can access the class from your computer equipped with a camera and a microphone, from a laptop (where the camera and microphone should be built-in), a tablet or a smartphone. Before each lesson, the tutor may send you by email essential lesson information/handouts for you to consult in advance, and before the class starts, the tutor will have sent you by email an invitation to join, which will be a simple weblink to click. The system is free and easy to use. Should you have questions about the required equipment, please do not hesitate to contact us by telephone or by email. Instructions are also available on our website www.kentadulteducation.co.uk.