Light and shadows: Drawing candlelight
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| 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.
About
Guided by artist Jo Conybeare, this practical online workshop explores how artists from Caravaggio to Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’ used light and shadow to heighten feeling and create atmosphere.
Working from a ‘candlelit’ still-life arrangement, you’ll experiment with tone, mark and contrast to explore how light emerges from darkness and refracts on surfaces, bringing a sense of mystery and depth to your drawings.
All you’ll need for the session is a couple of pieces of white and black paper, a soft pencil or charcoal, a piece of white chalk and an eraser. No previous experience is required.
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.