Art Practical: Sketching Colour & Light with Chalk Pastels in Regents Park ; Queen Mary Rose Garden

Meeting at Queen Elizabeth’s Rose Garden or the café if raining; the first session is in the inner circle in Regents Park; sketch on location with techniques shown on how to draw people and link them into their surroundings you will also develop composition skills and layering colour with chalk pastel. Ways to create rhythm to lead the eye around your drawing and painting sketches will be shown. You will improve your observational drawing skills and develop some quick sketching techniques for drawing people in movement. The sketching sessions will help you capture the mood and atmosphere of the gardens using tonal contrast to show light and shadow in charcoal, chalk pastel or fine liner pen. Ways to proportion and draw things in scale and where to start; ways of capturing the main shapes of the composition and then building up with layers of colour will be shown. You need to bring your own art materials, a small folding seat or plastic bag to sit on a bench, sketch book A4 or A3 of sugar paper for pastels, pencils HB, 2B , 5B, charcoal and a putty rubber, or a charcoal pencil, artists chalk pastels. sugar or pastel paper, tissue for cleaning, fixative or hairspray.