‘Drawing and Reinterpreting the Masters’ - a four-week course with Sara Lee Roberts
Dates: Monday evenings from 15th January - 5th February 2024
Venue: The Gallery at Green & Stone
Tickets: £180
As Picasso said, 'All artists borrow, great artists steal'.
In this 4-week class you will improve your drawing skill whilst also discovering your own unique way to reinterpret the Masters' works. We will consider the responses made to the past by contemporary artists and cover 4 main topics:
Portraits - how to achieve character and likeness, looking at the role of posture/stance , costume and surroundings as well as at capturing the proportions of the face.
Figure groups - how to suggest a relationship between characters and make an overall atmosphere.
Mythical landscapes - blending reality with dream and creating beautiful light.
Harnessing the power of colour and decorative patterns.
This is designed as a course that develops techniques over 4 weeks. Suitable for all levels, beginners welcome - an interest in all eras is the only essential.
Materials necessary for the course are provided by Green and Stone.
We will be drawing on St Cuthberts Mill Bockingford® paper.
Drinks kindly provided by Tom Savano Cocktails.
About Sara Lee Roberts
Sara lives and works in London. She has a degree in Chemical Physics, a Postgrad Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings from Cambridge University and completed the postgraduate level Drawing Year at the RDS in 2008 where she won the Paintings in Hospitals Prize. As a restorer, she worked on paintings in the Wallace Collection, The Royal Collection and the Royal Collection. She now devotes her time to painting, teaching and writing. Sara has exhibited widely and has paintings in the Jesus College Collection, The Unilever Collection, the Forbes Collection and many private collections. She teaches regularly at the Royal Drawing School where she is a member of the Senior Faculty. Her book Painting and Reinterpreting the Masters, published by the Crowood Press, gives a detailed and considered approach to using the art of the past for inspiration and to find your own contemporary voice.
https://www.saraleeroberts.co.uk/
