One of Britain’s foremost landscape painters, Peter Prendergast’s work has recently been collated into a website. http://www.prendergast.co This site, managed by his family, gives an insight not only into the iconoclastic quarry paintings for which Prendergast is renowned, but also into previously-unseen work. OCA tutor Jane Parry reflects on the work of this consummate...
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Eileen Adams is a fervent believer in the value of sketchbooks. We were delighted when this sketchbook guru (known for her contribution to Campaign for Drawing) agreed to be filmed talking about sketchbooks and the role of learning logs. I approach
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The latest addition to OCA Elements website is this demonstration by tutor Jane Lazenby of figure drawing using geometrical shapes to establish an outline.
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Modern Times: responding to chaos at the De La Warr Pavilion, a workshop that offers an opportunity to work with the exhibition of 20th century drawings held at the De La Warr pavillion. With a consideration of how artists think through drawing as a
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I’m half way through my first OCA course, Start Drawing. On page 17, there’s a question about the artist Ben Nicholson – “Why did he simplify still life forms and negative space and superimpose them on the Cornish landscape?” Good qu
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The first known drawings known are cave paintings, the most famous of which are those in Lascaux, France. Such early examples of mark making were clearly designed to communicate a message, but the aesthetic quali
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