This is a two day course that aims to introduce students to drawing birds of prey portraits with coloured pencil. Skills and techniques will include colour mixing, layering, blending, how to create the texture of feathers and working on black paper. This is an ideal course for students who have coloured pencils but do not know how to use them and is a good stepping stone to other courses that use the same medium and subject matter. By the end of the weekend you will have produced a couple of drawings.

A set of good quality coloured pencils such as Derwent, Faber Castell, Lyra, Caran D'Ache or WH Smith
1 x A4 (or equivalent size) pad or a couple of sheets of good quality drawing (Cartridge) paper. If bringing sheets then you will need a small board to tape them to.
1 x 2b pencil
Eraser
Pencil sharpener

Black paper: £1 per sheet.

Jonathan Newey

Jonathan is an award-winning artist with over 20 years of experience in teaching drawing and painting. He specialises in watercolour and coloured pencil drawing.