Figures In The Landscape – Human Proportions Made Easy – Friday 2nd May 2025 – Hamilton Victoria

Sketching and working with figures whether to include in a landscape, or draw from life or sketch for a design project – this Workshop is geared to help you understand figure proportions and how to let these work for you depending on the application and use you are looking to do – enabling you to capture movement in you artwork!

Figures can be stylised or abstracted – realistic or created to lead the eye from one part of the painting to another – We will work with specific notes for this Workshop for you to take home and use as a future reference – so you don’t have to remember it all from the Workshop day.

Below – Figures from Poetry – T.S Eliot Poetry Illustration – Artist Wyn Vogel

The lines ‘And how should I begin to spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways’ and How should I presume?’ appear in T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

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Join us to explore how you would create the magic of the figure in your Artwork!

Bring a Picnic Lunch and a Mug

This is a full day Workshop – from 10am to 2.30pm or there about – so bring a picnic lunch – tea and coffee are available and a fridge of cool water is at your fingertips.

Art Materials to Bring With You:

All of these items listed below are available to buy in Studio if you don’t have them – !

• At least 1 sheet Arches 300gsm Cold Pressed Watercolour Paper
• And some smaller sheets of watercolour paper to try out ideas – again experimental so these can be scraps from other Work if you have them!

PAINTS | Watercolour Paint – Watercolour Pencils – Watercolour Inks – 

but please bring whatever colours you have in your kit –

• Ultramarine Blue
• Indigo
• Cadmium Yellow – Deep
• Phthalo Blue
• Alizarin Crimson and/or Deep Cadmium Red – or similar colours – you are welcome to bring colours of your favourite roses see the images on the montage of Roses

Brushes – at least those below –

but please bring whatever brushes you have in your kit:

At Least 1 of each brush below – more will help you:

• 1 each x 1/2 inch and 3/4inch Angle Shader
• 1 x wide wash brush at least 2 inches in width – for wet work, we recommend the 2 inch Art Spectrum Soft Varnish Brush – I would recommend you have at least 2 with you, and
• 1 x wide dry brush at least 2 inches in width – feel it with you hand and maker sure it is very soft Goat Hair recommended – for dry work –
• 1 x Squirrel Needle point or Chinese style calligraphy brush for detailed line work and layering of your colours – we recommend No10 – NEEF Squirrel Needle Point – see the images below and on the cover photo for guidance!

Other Tools:

• 1 x old kitchen spray bottle – washed out and ready to have clean water to spray across your paints – I recommend an old ‘Windex’ Bottle of similar to give you a good spray of water.
• a 2B pencil and if you would like a rubber
• Hair dryer to dry your work between layers
• Backing board to tape your sample papers down (core board or similar from Bunnings) and tape to manage your paper – we don’t use an easel we tape the paper to the backing board so we can move the paper and tilt or turn as needed to manage your paint and water.

Remember to BYO your own lunch – bring your mug – Tea and Coffee are available all day!

Maybe Fashion Design!

REFUND POLICY

** refunds will be in full if we are notified 72 hours ahead of the Dates,

** we will withhold the card fee, but refund bookings notified within 24 hours of the Workshops – however,

** if there is a no-show on the day without notification, we will not refund the ticket at that time.