Art Classes

I run regular art workshops in Cambridge in a relaxed and supportive environment. The focus is on teaching drawing through good observation and sharing skills and techniques that can be used to develop successful pictures. I don’t prescribe a particular style but encourage people to develop their own way of creating successful pictures.

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Images below are from my art class Instragram feed. Follow us @cambridge.drawing.group

View fullsize Look at all of this lovely pattern making and design. #playingcards #queenofhearts #illustrationproject #design
View fullsize For the next few weeks @cambridge.drawing.group we will be making flat playing card designs using a drawn line and lots of home made patterns. There is a lot of room for freedom and self expression in this project and the chance to practice drawing f
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View fullsize Loads of great work today. People really explored the materials and made images using ink and tipp-ex pen, charcoal and charcoal pencils. Some images used all of these and it was so fun to see all the layering. A playful and productive time was had b
View fullsize We had a very enjoyable workshop this morning using powdered charcoal with a sponge to make the under-drawing. We really enjoyed drawing Daumier’s clay busts from ‘The Celebrities of the Juste Milieu’. #portraitdrawings #charcoal #d
View fullsize Looking forward to next week’s workshop ✨ We’ll be adjusting drawings with a Tipp-ex pen and enjoying the softness of charcoal powder for under-drawing. Both are ways of working that let you move a drawing around, change your mind, and st
View fullsize This week was all about gaining confidence in letting go, losing and finding an image. Drawing, rubbing back, using the eraser to draw with. Discovering how soft marks can work together beautifully with dark sharp marks. The results were so strong an
View fullsize Next week’s workshop is all about losing and finding an image. We’ll be working in charcoal or chalk pastels, rubbing back our initial drawing until it becomes a ghost image, then building back into it with charcoal and rubber. You can r
View fullsize Lots more great drawing skills being practiced in these workshops. It’s amazing to see how quickly people are improving. I used to shy away from drawing the face but now I can see how enjoyable and useful it is and all the skills practiced are
View fullsize A mixture of drawings we did this morning, long and short. We concentrated really hard on seeing spacial relationships using little dots and dashes to create scaffolding before drawing the features in properly. The quick drawings lasted between 2 and
View fullsize All welcome to next week’s drawing workshops, Monday 26th 10am-12pm & Wednesday 28th 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm. It’s a drawing skills workshop and so useful for any drawing practice. Looking forward to sharing this way of seeing with y
View fullsize Next Monday and Wednesday at @cambridge.drawing.group we’ll explore how simple, watery marks can suggest facial features without overworking the drawing. Using diluted ink or watercolour, we’ll practise letting the medium do some of the
View fullsize Such a great start to the term. We dived straight in with noticing the direction of the head and where the eyes, nose, mouth and ears were positioned using simple lines to make an underdrawing. It helped drawing over images with a wipeable pen to not
View fullsize We’re kicking off the term with simple, empowering techniques to understand facial features and proportions. This term’s theme is Being Human. All welcome — no experience needed. Just fun, confidence-building exercises for every lev
View fullsize Lots of interesting dip pen drawings this week going in all kinds of directions. A little bit of mono printing too with the blotting technique using tracing paper. #penandinkdrawing #andywarhol #edwardburnejones #cambridgedrawinggroup
View fullsize For our last workshop of the term we will be drawing with a dip pen and ink. Taking the freedom of Andy Warhol’s Christmas illustrations(image 3) and looking at the lyrical angels of Edward Burne-Jones (image 2) before taking our dip pen drawi
View fullsize Here are some more traces of our seeing, pages in our art books from today. #cambridgedrawinggroup #cambridgeartclasses #cambridge #mixedmedia
View fullsize Today we continued to work into papers that became the pages of a book. Unfortunately a lot of the photos I took didn’t come out well but here’s a lovely example of a finished A5 book. #cambridgedrawinggroup #cambridgeartclasses #drawing
View fullsize Next week we will enjoy making little art books and cards from our drawings. It’s another way of framing things and with the opportunity to send a little drawing into the world with love. #drawtosee #artcards #artbooks #cambridge #cambridgedraw