‘To watch Jonathan drawing in front of you is the best way to learn the Old Masters techniques – Watching a Verrocchio emerging from the hand of Jonathan is a joy to watch and the best way to learn. Jonathon is an inspirational teacher and shares his passion of the Old Masters paintings and drawing techniques but in such a wonderful and practical way that you learn and see how you can apply this to your own work. Jonathan inspires one to look, learn and apply the many drawing methods used by the great Old Masters. The courses are not just about drawing but about art history taking us right up to todays contemporary artists.”
Judy Boyt MA FRSS
The Courses impart technical and practical knowledge about the Old Masters’ methods of drawing. There is a close analysis of both textual, theoretical evidence from the Renaissance combined with an expansive overview of the visual evidence to provide an immediate sense of living contact with the masters of the Renaissance and their process and approach to drawing.
The courses are recorded and you can stream them via a Zoom Link for a full week after the live class. The recording will give you access to everything covered in the live class but when you attend live you can ask questions to me directly which is the main advantage of live participation online.
The sessions start with an introductory talk where I present ideas and techniques before demonstrating how to go about applying the process discussed. The demonstrations are live and you have a birds’ eye view of my drawing board and the reference side by side. The demonstration is there to guide you visually as I narrate the process live and in close technical detail. You are thus indeed encouraged to draw along and this is the purpose of this class structure. The process and technique of all drawings is rooted in historical drawing methods used in the 15th and 16th centuries.
I set homework in most of the classes and am very relaxed about deadlines. The more you do and the more variations of the out of class assignments you attempt the more improvement you will see in your drawing.
- Drawing Courses Online
- Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Drawing and the Spirit of Enquiry
- £199.00 – £399.00
- A Twelve-Week Online Programme delivered live on Zoom for you to explore and learn Leonardo's approach to drawing. You will discover how Leonardo used drawing to develop and reflect his enquiry into the fabric and structure of the entire natural order. This course will show you Leonardo's approach and process to drawing and you will learn how to apply his…
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- Silverpoint: process and approach in Renaissance Italy
- £199.00 – £399.00
- Silverpoint drawing is drawing with a silver stylus on paper or tablet with a prepared ground. Silverpoint is associated with the historical approach to drawing in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe and the unique qualities of silverpoint influenced how artists would draw because of the feel of the medium and how it responds to the drawing surface.…
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- Leonardo da Vinci: drawing the head and face
- £199.00
- This is a six-week online drawing course which teaches you to draw the human head and face to improve your skills in drawing portraits. The course is entirely based on the process and approach of drawing the head applied by Leonardo da Vinci as seen in extant examples of his work and his theoretical insights on the practical application of…
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- Twelve Week Course: Artistic Transformation | Antiquity to Art Now
- £399.00
- Develop your practice through understanding how artists from Antiquity to Now have made sense of challenging and illuminating aspects of life such as Revolution, Technology and Crime. This is a course designed to unlock your creative vision and open up your own approach to contemporary art by giving you an understanding of how artists today and from the past have…
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- One Year Course: Old Master Drawing | learning in the workshop
- £1,200.00
- This full academic year course puts you in the position of an apprentice learning to draw in the workshop of a Renaissance artist. Across the four terms you will learn the fundamental principles of design which will enable you to draw the body, the head, figural compositions, and to draw from nature or imagination with conviction and confidence. The outset…
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- Six Week Course: The Expressive Nude | drawing the figure
- £199.00
- The human form is the central expressive medium of Western Art. From the naturalism of Greek Antiquity to the formalism of the Middle Ages, and from the revived naturalism of the Renaissance to now, the evocative power of the nude retains its primacy as a tool to communicate sentiments and ideas. This course teaches you the methods, techniques and process…
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- Six Week Course: Creative Autonomy | the principles and process of drawing
- £199.00
- Drawing consists in conception, not production. This course is designed to unlock your artistic potential by empowering you to use drawing to explore and affirm your conception of the world and releasing you from self-imposed restraint. You will learn to use drawing as a mechanism of building positive self-affirmation by utilising principles which have generated creative freedom and autonomy for…
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- Six Week Course: Inspiration and Meaning | the history and development of Western Art
- £199.00
- Explore the history and development of Western art and culture to understand how artwork derives its meaning and value. Trace a journey into the cultural DNA of Western art. Creativity and innovation arise through understanding the past. Connecting and responding to a great legacy is the way artists throughout history have found creative autonomy and achieved striking, bold and innovative…
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