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ONLINE: Life Drawing 2: Mark Making and Expression

  • Intermediate
  • Drawing

So you can draw a human form - what are you saying with that?

This 4-week ONLINE Life Drawing course invites students to focus on the character of the marks they make, and to consider how that communicates information and mood within their work.

A good way to polish up existing drawing skills, as well as lots of oppportunities to shake things up!

4 Weeks: Tuition: $185 + Model Fee: $45 = Total: $230

TSA will deliver this course using ZOOM. Prior to the course session, you will receive an invitation for the session(s) via email. You'll need a laptop, desktop or tablet, internet connection with good bandwidth and headset (either wired or wireless). We recommend that you set up a free ZOOM account and be familiar with ZOOM prior to the class beginning.  Here is a link to help you get started: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697

Notes: Instructor Thomas Hendry is a Toronto-based artist and has been teaching at the Toronto School of Art since 1996. His drawings, shown in numerous exhibitions, use the means of traditional art to create contemporary images, images that address the beauty, mystery and complexity embodied in the human form. In addition to teaching at TSA, Thomas is an instructor at Sheridan College and has taught at The Haliburton School of Fine Arts, the AGO Gallery School, OCAD Outreach Program and the Toronto District School Board.
* This course is not currently open for registration

What you will learn

  • Mark making and communication of expression, information and mood in life drawing
  • Each class will have demos and working time with a model
  • Explore line and line-quality; loose and smooth mark-making - scratchy, scribbly, smooth and blended; playing these off each other; contrast - hi, lo, selective; enhancing volume; exploration; prepared paper
  • Recommended at-home exercises provided in weeks 1-3, to be shared at the start of the following class

Materials to Bring

Please keep your receipts to all purchases incase you need to return any materials.

Students will supply their own materials: paper, ballpoint pen & pencil, conte crayon (depending on availability),  There are Dollar Store/Walmart/Staples alternatives for all exercises.

  • paper: newsprint ideal, other sketchbook or photocopier bond okay
  • drawing tools: conte crayon, charcoal, soft pencil or charcoal pencil
  • kneaded eraser
  • plus any other drawing materials people may already have