Art - Fine Art Drawing Techniques for Beginners Monday

Course Name: Fine Art Drawing Techniques for Beginners Monday

Award: Certificate of Attendance (on request).

Course Overview:

This course is suitable for people who really want to try out fine art drawing and see what it’s all about. We learn to draw by sharpening our observational skills and by practicing how to represent the world as we see it. You will learn to understand the basic drawing concepts of measurement, perspective, positive/negative spaces as well as learning how to fill your line drawings with light and dark (tone) and by doing so create the illusion of 3-D on a 2-D surface. You will explore how light casts a shadow and affects the value in a drawing subject.

You will also try out drawing in different media e.g. Pencil, Charcoal, Indian Ink, Pastels etc.

You will learn to appreciate the meditative experience of drawing and be amazed by how we all have our own unique understanding of our environment and how this shows so beautifully in the practice of drawing. All students learn from each other as well as from the tutor in a friendly and relaxed environment.

Course Content:

• Drawing exercises to improve observational skills
• Dexterity exercises
• Drawing from Life
• Drawing from existing images
• Creating original images
• Basics of drawing
• Basics of creating illusions on a 2D surface
• Drawing with Mixed Media
• Learning in a Friendly & Relaxed Environment.

About the tutor:

Biography:

Vicky Smith is an Irish painter from Galway City on the West Coast of Ireland. A recipient of numerous awards, Smith was awarded the Creative Arts Practitioner Bursary Award from Galway City Council in 2025. She has received the Arts Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2023 and 2021. In 2025 Smith was awarded a two-week international artist residency at Interface Inagh in Connemara by Galway City Council. Her work is held in public and private collections across Ireland and the United Kingdom. Smith is a registered teacher of Art, Craft & Design with the Teaching Council of Ireland, Department of Education and Skills since 2002.

Vicky Smith’s practice examines domestic scenes, moments of motherhood, intimacy and the everyday, informed by memories of her childhood. Her autobiographical paintings of family speak to the experience of tenderness and relationships. She trained at Crawford College of Art and Design, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Trinity College UCD and the National College of Art and Design.