Basic Drawing & Sketching

Service Description

Basic Drawing & Sketching with internationally renowned artist Julie Gee every Thursday morning at Brook Arts Hub | £20 Unsure of where to start? Come and join us to learn tricks of the trade and develop your drawing skills in this stress free, friendly group. You can't paint a bad drawing, or you can't build a house on wonky foundations! Drawing and sketching really is the place to start on an artistic journey and will give you confidence with your painting. It will give you the skills you need to free yourself from being a slave to a photograph and get those creative juices flowing. You will need to bring pencils and photocopy paper. A simple HB pencil can do wonders! Also bring a few photographs of things you would like to draw. If you have done some drawing before, do bring your work along, so Julie can move you forwards. If this is completely new for you, don't worry, it soon wont be! Julie has been a professional artist for 30 years, has exhibited extensively internationally, at places like the San Diego Natural History Museum, Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Roger Tory Institute, NY, Irving Arts Centre Irving, Dallas, Salmagundi Club NY, The Cultural Club, Muscat, Oman, In Absentia, Foggia, Italy. represented by Trailside Gallery Jackson Hole, USA and the Tryon London. She has publish in numerous magazines including features in the Leisure Painter UK, The Artist USA, The Western Art Collector USA, Beyond Lebanon, Paws Trails Explorer Dubai, Life as A Human Canada and her book 'A Voyage Round the World in Paintings' was published by New Holland of London in 2008. She is presently working on volume 2. Julie is an experienced lecturer and teacher, having lectured and taught as a guest on P&O Cruises for over 20 years. She is passionate to help and her philosophy is that everyone can do it, it's just that some are more practiced than others.