Expressive Drawing Webinars with Robert Dutton
Painters Online have teamed up with professional artist and Search Press author, Robert Dutton, for a brand-new series of live webinars. Across five online sessions, Robert will cover a range of beautiful subjects and guide you through a variety of exciting drawing tools and techniques.
Everyone who signs up for a webinar will receive Robert's suggested materials and reference photograph in their confirmation email ahead of the live session, so you can either follow along with Robert or try it for yourself afterwards. The webinars will be recorded, and made available to those who have registered following the live session.
Find the full details for each webinar, including how to sign up, on the Painters Online website: https://www.painters-online.co.uk/news/book-now-for-our-live-painting-webinars/
"Drawing is important to me as an artist because it's the foundation to all my successes as a professional artist. The new and innovative drawing media available today will be explored in a practical hands-on way with different creative workshop exercises, together with practical analysis of media used as we work.
Whether you're a beginner or more experienced artist, these exciting creative drawing webinars will guide you through the practical experiences in easy-to-follow step-by-steps, adding to your repertoire as an artist and creating wonderful expressive drawings too.
I look forward to teaching you many of the skills featured in my latest popular publication with Search Press, ‘Drawing Dramatic Landscapes’, bringing the book alive and immersing you in the rewarding world of creative expressive drawing." - Robert Dutton ASGFA
Webinar one - Drawing with graphite sticks and pencils
- Thursday 10th February 2022 at 2:30pm
- Tickets: £15.00
‘Paint, paint and more paint is what I want’, is the usual response by artists. In this webinar, Robert will show you how expressive drawing will add strength to your painting and add real value to further creative adventures with paint.
This webinar explores the exciting range of graphite drawing tools available to you as artists, to create expressive exploratory drawings in multiple layers.
Using the reference photograph provided, this evocative layered landscape with all those field patterns and sharp defined hedgerows will give you a great opportunity to put into practice what is explained and demonstrated for yourself drawing your landscape with conviction.
Webinar two - Creative expression with charcoal
- Thursday 24th February 2022 at 2:30pm
- Tickets: £15.00
Charcoal – that amazing artists' media! There's so much you can do with it. Today’s artists don’t just have sticks. There are blocks, grades (from ‘H’ to ‘very soft’), liquid charcoal, powders and more!
This webinar takes you through the possibilities of adding new dimensions to working with a traditional media, in contemporary, new and exciting ways. To include liquid, powder and charcoal aquarelle al in the same expressive drawing creates amazing depth!
The reference photograph of one of the quieter Yorkshire Dales villages, ‘Thorpe’ in Upper Wharfedale (Near Grassington), provides you with lots of opportunities to explore texture and light, the main themes of this workshop, using different types of charcoal in combination.
Webinar three - Painted drawings
- Thursday 10th March 2022 at 2:30pm
- Tickets: £15.00
Drawing media has never been as exciting and in this webinar, you’ll learn how to move graphite into the painting realm. You will explore ways of painting with graphite - creating multiple layers of monotone, duo tone and combinations of subtle tints of glowing earth tones - transparent blue and subtle smoky greys.
This will be an exciting practical webinar, exploring drawn and painted graphite marks together with lots of successful outcomes on different textured papers. It will also be an eye opener to the new and innovative liquid graphite ‘paints’, which when combined with expressive drawn marks, create really exciting drawings indeed
The photographic scene for you to use in this webinar is local to Robert in North Yorkshire. Layers of liquid graphite will be wonderful to use to express the scene. Have your materials at the ready, this is going to be another good one!
Webinar four - Expressive layered landscapes
- Thursday 24th March 2022 at 2:30pm
- Tickets: £15.00
In this webinar, Robert will demonstrate and guide you through many different ways of successfully combining drawing media together (both charcoal and graphite) to create real depth and expression with your work. See how the combinations of both versatile drawing media work together in interesting and exciting ways, to create impressionistic and expressive contemporary drawings.
It's time to get dramatic! This moody and dramatic Lake District scene provides you with a great opportunity to delve in with the drawing media and create a wonderfully evocative scene emphasising the light, depth of tone (and more), to evoke drama and impact to this landscape composition.
Webinar five - Go with the flow
- Thursday 7th April 2022 at 2:30pm
- Tickets: £15.00
Ink with charcoal and graphite can be a really exciting combination to express your ideas. Many different types of ink are used in Robert's studio and are to be found in his creative kit bag for outdoor painting too. They add so much to your drawings, and in this webinar, Robert will explain how successful colour combinations, with a limited colour palette, can further your continued expressive drawing experiences.
The Langdale Pikes! They must be one of the most iconic mountain ranges and pinnacles in The Lake District and this is your opportunity to paint them from this wonderful lofty knoll at Tarn Hows. Learn how to quickly layer your painting with the different media and learn how those initial inspirational layers with inks and drawing media quickly build an exciting painting. Balancing loose intuitive marks with expression and control creating a very exciting and evocative painting indeed.
Robert's book The Innovative Artist: Drawing Dramatic Landscapes is available to buy on the Painters Online bookshop.
About the Author
Robert Dutton
For 30 years Robert had an extensive career as a professional Graphic Designer and Illustrator working...