Responding to the Surface 
1st May 2021

10am - 3pm
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£75(inc all materials and VAT)

Tutor - Jane Couroussopoulos

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Jane Couroussopoulos studied painting, etching and engraving at City and Guilds of London Art School. She moved to Edinburgh 30 years ago where she has a studio in Coburg House, Leith. She works as a painting tutor and drawing course leader for Leith School of Art and as a community education tutor for Edinburgh City Council. Jane also runs a number of courses and workshops for Paintbox across the year.  www.janepaint.com

A one day workshop of mixed media drawing. While there is no doubt that planning and being in control of a composition is important, working to a rigid and fixed plan, can be a disappointing and at its worst, a sometimes blinkered process. Introducing elements of the unknown, allows the drawing to be spontaneous, surprising and alive. 
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Drawing from a still life in the studio students will spend the day making a large mixed media drawing using compressed charcoal, soft pastels and a limited palette of acrylics, on a surface that they will have been prepared for them in advance. The random marks and colours of the pre-prepared surfaces, might end up completely obliterated, but on the way to that end, they will provide unexpected elements that the students will need to respond to and tackle: either incorporating them, playing them down, or obliterating.

​'Happy accidents' will be key and responding to the work as it unfolds will be the essential part of the day's work.
Artists we will be looking at will include Kurt Jackson, Richard Diebenkorn and Matisse