Newcastle Art lessons are for any person wishing to improve their drawing ability. You can be a novice or an established artist who need to brush up on their drawing skills.

Vivienne has taught art and drawing for over 40 years, she believes drawing is the foundation skill for any art learning.  You need to draw first before you can progress onto other artistic mediums. It’s the basic building blocks of art.

Vivienne’s artistic influences referred to on the following web pages all show that this list of artists were all great drawers first. From Australian artist Brett Whiteley to Lloyd Rees and Clarice Beckett. They all knew intimately that their drawing skill needed to be at a first rate level. This is how an artist understands composition, lines, and form. They can experiment with light by using various shading techniques.

Vivienne’s Newcastle Art Lessons are private lessons which are done at Vivienne’s art studio where she will offer expert guidance on how to progress your drawing ability.

Contact – Just fill out the form on this Contact Us for for Newcastle Drawing Lessons and Vivienne will get in contact with you regarding cost and course details.

Some Art Lesson Resources From Around the Web
This site is more for the younger art lessons student but offers some good practical lesson examples:
www.princetonol.com

Another site with some great recources, and include examples like: An Art lesson plan on Impressionism and Claude Monet and Michelangelo and his painting of the Sistine Chapel are the subject of this lesson
www.lessonplanspage.com

Vivienne teaches from the approach of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. In her original work book from acclaimed artist Betty Edwards it shows how to best learn the foundations of drawing by offering some excellent exercises to work through. Vivienne teaches from this book and guides you through each exercise to get the most out of each one.

More about Drawing on the Right Side of the Brian can be found at the following links:
Drawing on the Right Side of The Brain
The Secret to More Brain Power by Drawing

Vivienne has pursued many artiest mediums including potting, painting and drawing. She believes drawing is foundational to much art practice.

Most people believe they have not got the ‘gift’ for drawing. Nothing could be further from the truth as drawing is a learned skill that can be taught and learned within a relatively limited time span.

Vivienne has structured 6 week learning to draw classes that will show a student the fundamentals to drawing and give them confidence to trust in their abilities that we all naturally posses.

Drawing is taught using a proven and very successful drawing approach. Vivienne uses the Betty Edwards method which is described as Drawing on the right side of the brain. This approach uses our more lesser used parts of the brain that deals not in numbers and words but in space and proportion.

Art lessons Newcastle is taught from Vivienne’s studio in Mayfield Newcastle where she teaches a great way to learn about art and how to see art – starting with six week drawing course.

To find out about booking a six week course or to find out more about drawing on the right side of the brain you can contact Vivienne below:

To read more about Vivienne’s drawing classes and to see some links and courses click here.

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