DRAWING WINNIE THE POOH!

DRAWING WINNIE THE POOH!

Online Live Class: WEDNESDAY 10th September:30 UK TIME

+14 DAYS RECORDING ACCESS

Taught by Laura Smith

DRAWING WINNIE THE POOH is a brand new online drawing session led by guest tutor, Laura Smith, focusing on the exquisite E. H. Shepard illustrations for the A. A. Milne classic. This class delves into E. H. Shepard’s wonderful use of line, tone and delicate colour that brings to life a group of characters that are so close to our hearts. 

Together, we’ll unpack his method by looking at some preliminary pencil drawings followed by his well known pen and wash illustrations. The class is specifically focused on illustrations from the book ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’, where we will meet and draw several, beloved characters including Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore and Owl. 

Laura will be using pencil to start with. She will then move on to using a pen (dip or fine liner) with waterproof, black ink. This is so that when she tints the drawings with watercolour, the lines don’t blur.

As you draw, your attention will be brought to Shepard’s huge powers of observation as well as imagination. These are extremely skilful works of art and in her preparation, Laura has found herself blown away by his lively, humorous and deft picture making.

Materials:

Thick cartridge or watercolour paper

Pencil

Water-resistant or water-proof black fine liner / dip pen / cartridge pen

Watercolours

ABOUT OUR TUTOR

Laura Smith is a painter living and working in London. She completed her BA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2003 and went on to win the Richard Ford Award and the Drawing Prize during her studies on The Drawing Year at The Prince's Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School) in 2004. She graduated from her MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2012, winning the Clare Winsten Memorial Award. Laura was shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize in 2011 and has recently shown at the Mall Galleries, Jerwood Space, Flowers Gallery, Lubomirov-Easton and the Royal Academy of Arts.

FAQs - Please read these thoroughly so you can be fully prepared for the class:

WHO IS THIS FOR:

This class is suitable for ALL LEVELS.

TICKETS:

We suggest an amount of £20. However, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we may continue to offer our sessions on this basis whilst also giving our tutors a sustainable wage.

There is also a ticket option to "Pay It Forward" to support us and our students! We offer classes for free to those who can't afford the minimum amount (If this is you please email us to join for free). This continues to ensure our classes are available to everyone!

ONCE BOOKED:

You will receive a confirmation email and be able to access information on how to join the event via your eventbrite "Online Event Page" You can access this by signing into eventbrite or creating an account using the email address that you booked with.

IN THE CLASS:

You can't be seen or heard in our classes, your audio and video are automatically turned off and there's no way these can be turned on. You can talk to us and others in the class in the chat box!

AFTER CLASS:

We love to see your drawings or anything else our classes inspire! You can share them with us by tagging us on instagram (@londondrawinggroup) or emailing us if you don't have socials.

ARE YOU TRYING TO BOOK VIA THE EVENTBRITE PHONE APP?!

We have been in touch with Eventbrite, and they have informed us that currently you cannot book tickets to online events in their app. It's very frustrating and we have been assured they are working on a solution. In the meantime, we recommend that you book tickets to our events outside of the iOS app - either via a web browser or a desktop. If you book our classes regularly we recommend deleting the eventbrite App.

RECORDING ACCESS

W e will email the recording link to everyone who has booked approx 2 hours after the live class finishes. This will be available to watch anytime within 14 days

IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS OR QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL:

hello@londondrawinggroup.com

And that's it!

We're really looking forward to you joining us.

Love,

LDG