Expressive Drawing & Mixed Media Painting with Jody Graham
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Join professional artist Jody Graham for a 6 WEEK series of fun and inspiring weekly classes in expressive drawing and mixed media painting.
Join professional artist Jody Graham for a six-week series of immersive and inspiring studio sessions exploring expressive drawing through the fundamental Elements of Art.
Designed for intermediate to advanced artists, this course encourages participants to deepen their observational skills, expand their creative practice, and develop a more personal and expressive visual language.
Working within the theme What Remains, students will investigate what catches their attention, what lingers in memory, and what holds meaning in everyday life. Through a combination of guided exercises, observational studies, experimentation, and discussion, participants will explore how the formal elements of art can be used not only to describe the world around them but also to communicate feeling, atmosphere, and personal experience.
This course is designed to build confidence, strengthen technical understanding, and encourage greater freedom and individuality in drawing practice. Participants will be supported to take creative risks, trust their instincts, and discover new possibilities within their work.
Weekly Themes & Techniques
Week 1 – Line
Explore expressive line through gesture, contour drawing, continuous line exercises, rhythm, movement, and mark making.
Week 2 – Shape
Investigate positive and negative space, simplification, reduction to create stronger visual relationships and compositions.
Week 3 – Form + Value
Use light, shadow, tone, and contrast to create volume, structure, atmosphere, and three-dimensional form on the page.
Week 4 – Texture
Experiment with surface qualities, layering and expressive mark making to evoke texture, memory, and sensory experience.
Week 5 – Colour
Explore intuitive and emotional approaches to colour, focusing on mood, harmony, contrast, and personal response within drawing-based colour work.
Week 6 – Space + Composition
Bring the elements together through depth, cropping, layering, placement, and visual balance to create dynamic and resolved largescale drawing.
By the end of the course, participants will have developed a deeper understanding of the Elements of Art, expanded their expressive drawing vocabulary, and produced a body of work that reflects their own unique way of seeing and responding to the world.
Materials List
Please find materials list attached below under Additional Information.
Terms & Conditions
Please choose carefully as fees are non-refundable. Refunds of course fees will only be given if the course is cancelled or a place is not available in the course.
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