Drawing & Painting
This 12-week course is a supportive and fun introduction for absolute beginners to portraiture through drawing and painting from a posed model.
Through a series of exercises you will learn about the anatomy, learning how to capture the likeness but most importantly how to get the sense of feeling into your subject.
You will learn both drawing and painting techniques that will better your understanding and help when approaching a portrait study.
This course is suitable for absolute beginners, in developing your skills in drawing and painting as you will get one on one help and guidance by Leah to suit each participant.
You will require the following materials for this course:
About the Tutor
Leah Davis is a Belfast born and based Artist. Since graduating from Belfast School Of art in 2021 with Ba (Hons) Fine art, Leah has exhibited in numerous locations alongside other artists as well as being chosen for prestigious commissions.
Working primarily in oils, Leah has a distinctive painting style combining a unique understanding of colour with a broad knowledge and study of the human form. Leah’s work often welcomes a captivating combination of a mastery of tone with elements of drawing along with pro active use of negative space that suggests a looseness and element of movement to many pieces.