Do you want to bring your drawing skills to the next level and improve your technique? Join us at SGSCC for this art class and get tips and tricks to make your drawings advanced. Come along to this creative comprehensive drawing course in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. This course is a comprehensive drawing learning program that explores in greater depth, additional variety of techniques and media different supports (various papers and boards and to learn to draw both gestural as well as working in fine detail with various projects.

This course is intended for those with some previous drawing experience yet who still love the creative process of drawing and are willing to experiment. The projects offered are varied, from landscape, portraiture, perspective drawing, and still life in all its variations. Experimenting with media is encouraged and students will get overall instruction with a variety of media. Pencil, graphite, charcoal, ink, felt tip pens, pastels, colour pencils, watercolour pencils, and oil pastel. With guidance and a relaxed classroom atmosphere, your drawings will excel to levels you had not imagined!

Course Outline:

• Variety of drawing medium
• Variety of drawing techniques
• Simple perspective and foreshortening
• Development of ideas
• Use of mixed media methods
• Colour perspective and fundamentals

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will be able to successfully select and draw with a black and white drawing media and surface for a purpose.
• Apply the drawing technique of tone for a selected purpose.
• Apply the technique of tone to transform shape to form.
• Use a variety of appropriate media, tools, and surfaces safely
• Use a variety of expressive drawing techniques
• Select and safely use appropriate and various media and techniques for the purpose.

What to bring:

• First class – you will be advised of the theme and what to bring, beforehand, via email.
• A full range of pencils including 5H,2B, 4B, 6B pencils
• A4 visual art diary
• A4 and A3 sketchpad
• A4 Watercolour paper pad – student quality (Derwent or similar)
• Sharpener or Stencil knife (for sharpening pencils)
• Compressed and willow charcoal
• Paper stump
• Kneadable rubber
• Hard rubber
• Watercolour pencils
• Black ink – preferably Parker Quink Ink (Officeworks)
• Oil Pastels/ soft pastels
• Black fine liner – preferably ‘Uni Pin’ in a few different sizes(Officeworks)

Art Supplies Discount:

As a bonus for learning Art with SGSCC, all enrolled students are entitled to a generous 10% discount off the purchase of art supplies when they shop in-store at Eckersley’s Art & Craft, Taren Point!
View Eckersley's Website for product ideas.

About the Tutor:

I am Vicki Peck, creator and owner of Vicki Peck Art.
I have an absolute passion for all things art, including creating my own paintings, helping others find their creative talents through my art classes and helping people heal and grow through art therapy.

A little about me:
I have created art for as long as I can remember and come from a family of many artistic people. I studied art – painting & ceramics (my other passion) and majored in ceramic design but continued to paint along the way.
I am originally from South Africa and left in 2000 to broaden my horizons overseas. After spending quite a while in the U.K, I moved to Australia in 2005, with my now husband.

In the search to do something more creative work after being in an office while overseas, I decided to become a florist(another passion)…I studied and became a qualified florist and spent a few years doing this.
Then kids came along and my creativity got paused… and now I’m back to being creative in any way possible!

Along with doing school holiday art classes, weekly senior art classes, commissions and doing my own painting, I am also now an art therapy practitioner and loving my time spent doing this each week.
For my paintings I predominantly use oils, but also absolutely love watercolours, and use this medium when I can give it the time it deserves.
My themes vary from landscapes, seascapes and still-lifes, and I love painting flowers! I paint from the heart and won’t paint something unless it feels right and makes me happy.

I love helping others find their path in art, and always encourage everyone to find their own unique style, to be confident in their abilities and embrace the process.

Other Information:

• To ensure resources are ready for you at the start of your course, we ask you ideally enrol at least one week before the course commences.
• All courses need a minimum number of students to run ("we try our hardest to get those") . If your course does not have enough students it will be cancelled before the commencement and you will be informed.