Creating like Titian: Colour and composition
Tickets
| Standard: | £10 |
| Concessions: | £8 |
Please book a ticket to access the event. You will receive an E-ticket with instructions on how to access your online events, films and resources via your National Gallery account.
Please note, only one ticket can be booked per account.
Concessions are for full-time students, jobseekers, and disabled adults.
This event is open for House and Exhibition Members priority booking until Thursday, August 21, 2025.
About
Explore the power of colour, composition and the human body in this online drawing session inspired by Titian’s ‘Noli me Tangere’.
Led by artist and educator Jo Conybeare, this practical session invites you to examine Titian’s working process through guided exercises that connect observation with colour. Working from two life models, you’ll explore how pose, gesture and colour interact to create drama and emotion on the page.
Beginning with drawing the figures in brown or black pen, echoing the tonal underlayers used by Renaissance painters, you'll then introduce washes of watercolour to explore how Titian used colour to shape mood, form and spatial relationships. Throughout the hour, we will look closely at ‘Noli me Tangere’, considering how Titian constructed the scene through composition and tonal contrast.
All you will need for this session is a brown or black pen or felt-tip, watercolour paints and brush and a few sheets of paper.
Your Tutor
Joanna Conybeare is an artist and Gallery Educator at the National Gallery. She has led multiple adult courses and has worked in Primary and Secondary schools in London and the south coast as a teacher and subject lead for Art and Design. In her own artistic practice, she uses clay, porcelain and terracotta to explore the figure, enjoying the immediacy of the material that enables her to ‘draw’ three-dimensionally.