Life drawing for beginners – taster

Start Date: Wednesday 27/11/2024

Time: 10:00am

Duration: 3 hrs

Price: £54.00

Ability: All Welcome

Tutor: Rachel Labovitch

About this course

This beginner’s life drawing taster course, led by accomplished visual artist  Rachel Labovitch, is ideal for those starting from scratch. You’ll learn some starting techniques like working with live models, understanding proportions, and experimenting with light and shadow to build your skills and confidence. This session is a perfect introduction to our 8-week course launching in the New Year—come give it ago and see if it’s the right fit for you.

If you are looking to refresh your techniques it will allow you to develop a strong foundation to progress further. Our inspiring Twickenham studio offers a creative hub, offering a professional yet relaxed environment that sparks creativity and focus. Rachel Labovitch's experienced and hands-on approach means you get personalised feedback and guidance at each session.

Join a group of like-minded people, share ideas and grow together in a supportive community setting.

What you'll learn

This taster session will introduce you to the basics of working with and drawing from a live model.

  • investigating the overall structures of the human form
  • exploring ways of establishing weight in the figure drawing by looking at the spine
  • applying these structures to our drawings of the model

Materials supplied: none

What to bring:

2H, H, HB, B, 2B, 4B and 6B pencils, putty rubbers, plastic rubbers, 180gsm cartridge paper and sharpeners

About the instructor:

Rachel Labovitch is a visual artist with a practice underpinned by drawing. She has an MA in drawing and exhibits nationally and internationally. Alongside her studio practice, Rachel has worked as a lecturer and artist educator for 20 years. She develops drawing-based teaching programmes and projects in schools, outreach organisations and gallery spaces. She has lectured at the University of the Arts London and Kingston University and had a solo show at The Garden Museum, London in 2019. Rachel currently teaches painting classes in Richmond, as well as facilitating drawing based workshops at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham.

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Reviews

“Taking the time to learn in the inspiring environment of Colne Road Studios was such a treat! The group was welcoming and supportive and Rachel is an extremely talented and generous teacher, sharing her skills and knowledge to give us fresh perspectives and a wealth of useful advice and feedback. I felt my ability and interest in drawing had been revived after many years dormant, learning how to observe as well as how to draw. I would encourage anyone willing to pick up a pencil to have a go, and have already signed up to Rachel’s next course!   “CB  March 2025

‘I decided to do the Drawing for Beginners class at Colne Road Studios as I have recently started painting for the first time since school and felt that doing a beginner drawing class would aid me with this in looking at image and form.  That and the fact that I hadn’t picked up a pencil to draw since I was a teenager.   The course exceeded my expectations.  The group were lovely and from very different backgrounds – some beginners, some already dabbled, and a couple were professionals who used drawing in differing forms in their careers.  Rachel Labovitch is an exceptional tutor.  She is informative in her teaching approach bringing in examples of other artists as we went along meaning that new or well-known works of art were discussed and techniques explored.  She is positive, supportive and very encouraging.   I left each class feeling inspired and even did ‘homework’ during the week to practice what I’d learnt – something I didn’t do at school.  I would highly recommend this course to anyone and everyone – if you think you can’t draw, you’ll be proved wrong and you’ll start to notice the world around you with fresh eyes.’  LA Feb 2025

 

Can I park nearby ?

A CPZ is in force from Mon to Sat 8.30 – 6.30pm
Limited paid spaces available in surrounding roads with Ring Go cashless Parking

Max stay 4 hours during operational hours

Holly Road Car park, behind Marks & Spencer TW1 4HF

Mon to Sat – 8am to 6.30pm.
This car park is accessible and free to park in outside of these hours. Max stay 4 hours during operational hours – walking to the Studio approx 9mins

Are your courses just for adults or do you offer any courses for children ?

At the moment the courses at Colne Road Studios are designed for adults over the age of 18 . The aim is to create a relaxed  environment, provide  a bit of an escape and switch off from every day responsibilites. We are not able to accommodate children in our classes, nor do we provide children’s classes at this time.

Enrolment deadline

To secure a course, please book at least 8 days before the listed course start date.

Any course with no bookings 8 days prior to it’s start date will then be removed from the website .

Courses with fewer than 3 participants may be cancelled, with 5 days’ notice given to those who had enrolled.

You will be notified by email if this happens, unless you would like us to text you  instead, but please let us know.
A refund for the full course value will then be made.
Please bare with us .    This might take 5-10 days to come through.

Where is my course taking place ?

100 Colne Road Twickenham TW2 6QE. map ref

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What is your refund policy?

All of our longer courses are exchangeable up until 28 days prior to the start of the course. After this, you are able to change your booking to a different course for a £20 admin fee. Please note that from 14 days prior to the start of the course, your booking is non-refundable and non-exchangeable.

Our refund policy is strict because it enables us to pay ourselves and our tutors a fair wage, and remain accessible as a studio. Every time we are asked to to accommodate a refund request , we would be forced to lower our staff wages or increase our prices – both of which we really want to avoid. We hope you understand that this is why there are no exemptions to our refund policies.