About This Workshop

Draw along with experienced tutor and charcoal artist, Becky Gouverneur, who will guide you gently step-by-step to creating your own Winter drawing. After the class you will have the option to have your illustration made into your own, Winter card design. During the course we will cover: Drafting techniques Charcoal application and blending techniques. Creation of a full tonal range in charcoal creating flat and fluffy textures. Materials: We will be working at A4 size using a range of specialist charcoal products and tools. If you wish to bring your own equipment please refer to the list below and try to bring all of the starred (**) items as these will be used during the session. Alternatively a pack of all the materials you will need for the workshop (and a few more!) can be bought from the artist on the day for £25. A Tombow Mono Zero eraser would also be very useful if you have one, these will be available to purchase separately from the artist. Paper will be supplied by the artist free of charge. Charcoal Materials Pack Includes: • Willow Charcoal Power & Pot ** • Set of soft charcoal brushes (a set of soft makeup brushes works well) ** • Conte Pierre Noire ‘H’ pencil ** • Conte Pierre Noire ‘2B’ pencil ** • Faber Castell putty rubber ** • Faber Castell PITT compressed charcoal stick ‘medium’ • Set of 6 blending stumps ** • Emery board ** • Derwent white charcoal pencil • Pack of Coates assorted short length willow charcoal ** • All above items supplied in a canvas bag Customised Winter Card Printing & Postage: If you would like to convert your drawing into a personalised Winter card in time to send out to friends and family Bex will take your completed drawing after the workshop, professionally scan and format it ready for printing with the option to add a personalised message onto the front of your card. Cards will then be printed, packaged and posted back to you before Winter weekend. There is an additional charge for this (includes scanning, editing, printing and postage of cards and original artwork) as follows: For 10 cards: £48 For 25 cards: £63 For 50 cards: £79. The order can be placed at the end of the workshop and the fee will be payable directly to the tutor on the day. *Please note this is OPTIONAL and not a compulsory part of the workshop, you are free to finish the day with just a beautiful charcoal drawing! *Fifteen people maximum per classes.

Cancellation Policy

For the online virtual classes, we will require 48 hours notice to cancel your purchase with a full refund. We have to keep the class sizes small for online virtual learning and therefore we need to ensure capacity and will need time to advertise and fill your cancelled space.

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