A Winter's Tale - Click here for more info
A Winter's Tale - Click here for more info
A celebration of the returning light…
The Winter Solstice is a tipping point - a moment when the sun stands still. After this point, with each sunrise, we welcome brighter mornings and longer days.
Join us on a storytelling journey this season as we use ancient folk tales from around the world to inspire our Sketchbook adventures.
Take a walk with us through cool Winter landscapes, star speckled skies and meet with wise nature spirits that will guide us on our journey from darkness to light.
Project Contents:
Cycle 1 : The Bones | Resurrecting the ‘bones’ of the Deer Mother stories | Deer Bone and Skull Drawing in Chalk & Charcoal, Deer Mother Spirit study
Cycle 2: The Cave | Simplifying Deer | Learning how to sketch deer using ‘boxing’ technique, Cave paintings as inspiration (simplifying deer), Creating cave inspired paintings
Cycle 3: Antlers and the Sun | How to sketch antlers in pencil, ink and other materials, Painting the Sun, Development studies and artist inspiration
Cycle 4: The Land | Winter landscapes / landscapes of the imagination | Mountains in watercolour, Trees, Composition ideas and additional Winter Landscape Inspiration
Cycle 5: The Sky | The Aurora with drawing inks, The Stars - Orion and the Great Bear, Painting the moon (inks, watercolour),
Cycle 6: Spirit of the Deer Mother | Taking ideas explored during the season one step further | Artists for inspiration, Composition ideas: The Deer in the night sky, Earthed Deer Spirit, Skull & Sun.
Materials used (not included in project purchase): 2B Pencil, pencil blender, Chalk & Chalk / Charcoal Pencils, Black drawing ink, white carbon paper, burnt umber pastel, burnt umber drawing ink, size 6 brush, pan watercolours, Size 1 Rigger brush or size 1 round brush, larger wash brush, Dip pen or white gelly pen, gold pen, White Gouche, Drawing inks: Black, Lemon Yellow, Prussian Blue, Violet (optional). Most of these materials are available in our Art Shop.
Extra paints (Daniel Smith) : Paynes blue grey & Irridescent Gold