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Mastering Landscape Saturday AM in The Rocks  (A)

Explore composition, concept, tone, colour and perspective in Oil or Watercolour.  We travel to exciting locations around the Harbour and to Observatory Hill where the opportunity to combine colonial architecture and the grand sweep of the harbour and its bridge  provide splendid opportunities for composition.  For watercolour, students need to have worked in specific watercolour classes before joining this class.

It is recommended that, prior to or in conjunction with landscape courses in the school, the student should take a course in still life, drawing and painting, either in the day time or the evening.

Enjoy Painting “en Plein air” in the Rocks or alternatively see Georges Heights Courses.

Saturday: The Rocks 10 am – 12.45pm

Term 3: Mon 19 Jul – Sat 25 Sep
Term 4: Mon 11 Oct – Sat 18 Dec

The Rocks Enrolment Form (PDF, 2 pages, 500kb)

Fundamentals of Life Drawing  (B)

A  comprehensive structured course – from the basics to the mastery of drawing, using the life model right from the start.  Study the three parts, independently; Beginning Life Drawing (2 terms),  Essentials of Anatomy (2 terms) and Mastery of Drawing (ongoing).

Beginning Life Drawing: Monday evening  6.30 to 9pm and Sat 10 am to 12.45pm

Essentials of Anatomy / Mastery of Drawing : Saturday  1.30 to 4.15 pm

Friday Night Life figure Painting:  6.30 to 9 pm

Colour theory is studied  in a sustained ten week pose,  Controlled dramatic lighting effects are emphasised.

Term 3: Mon 19 Jul – Sat 25 Sep
Term 4: Mon 11 Oct – Sat 18 Dec

The Rocks Enrolment Form (PDF, 2 pages, 500kb)

Fundamentals of Still Life, Figure and Portrait Painting  (C)

An ongoing, step by step course progressing from basic drawing, via tonal and colour analysis, to finished works in pencil, charcoal, oil or pastel. Still life, the figure and portraiture may be studied independently in this illuminating course. — The basics of all Fine art practice

Mon – Thur: evenings

Fri: mid afternoon and evening

Term 3: Mon 19 Jul – Sat 25 Sep
Term 4: Mon 11 Oct – Sat 18 Dec

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Dynamic Portrait and Figure  (E)

Create vivid works using interplay of light source, tone and colour.

This course is run subject to numbers enrolled prior to start of term.

Tuesday evening

Term 3: Mon 19 Jul – Sat 25 Sep
Term 4: Mon 11 Oct – Sat 18 Dec

The Rocks Enrolment Form (PDF, 2 pages, 500kb)

Classical Life Drawing   (D)

Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci.

Are these the artists who kindled in you the love of fine classical drawing?

You may not be as familiar with the  drawings of George Washington Lambert, one of Australia’s greatest draughtsmen, who was a student of this school, as was William Dobell, another brilliant master of the pencil.  It is worth a visit to the Drawing section of the AGNSW to view their work.  Adelaide Perry, Thea Proctor, - there are so many famous Ashton Alumni names.  Samuel Wade and Murray Bird are just two of the splendid masters of drawing who are currently teaching in this school.

Throughout the history of fine drawing, from the age of the Altamira cave artists in the Basque country of Northern Spain where 40.000 years ago bison were observed accurately and fixed on rock walls, there have been many great  masters .

Great drawing is, in its essence, more about form and structure than feeling.   To be able draw with feeling and authority the the artist  ultimately relies on practice and observation.  All the fine drawing classes in the school are centered on the live model.  The student refers continually to the skeleton and anatomical casts and  texts. Line and hatching is explored in this course, rather than tone, which for our  purposes here hides form rather than revealing the structure that the draughtsman must search for.  This course is for those who love drawing for its own sake.

By close observation from the live models. See underlying skeletal / muscular structure. Great master styles are explored. An ongoing course.

Beginners /Advanced

Wed, Thur evenings

Term 3: Mon 19 Jul – Sat 25 Sep
Term 4: Mon 11 Oct – Sat 18 Dec

The Rocks Enrolment Form (PDF, 2 pages, 500kb)

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SKETCH CLUBS at The Rocks Campus and Georges Heights Studio 

Drawing from the live model - No enrolment necessary

 - See JAAS BLOG