One Day Drawing Workshop for Beginners with resident artists Lili Heller and Ben Readman

Price: 1,800 thb (including 2 tutors’ fee, material, coffee break)

Date: Sunday 12th January

Time: From 2pm until 4pm – coffee break – 4.30pm until 6.30pm

Materials are provided. All age groups welcomed. The workshop will be conducted in English.

BOOKING REQUIRED

Tutors: Resident Artists Lili Heller (French) and Ben Readman (Irish)

Limited space: only 10 Participants maximum.

Workshop outline:

Understand in a fun and simple way how our vision works, what allows us to see volume and realize the importance of composition contrast and depth. You will learn ways to handle the different materials, pencil, eraser, charcoal etc. and how it interacts with the different papers.

The workshop will start with technical exercises involving the left and right side of the brain, and will continue with observation sketches (fruit and vegetables, daily manufactured objects, landscapes).

You will make several drawings and use different types of paper, sizes and materials.

This workshop is suitable for complete Beginners as well as for people who want to start again from primal explanations and expand their knowledge with helpful, easy to understand basics and tricks.

All the supplies are provided: Different pencils (hard and soft), erasers, drawing clips, boards, coloured pencils, chalk, charcoal, compressed charcoal, erasers. Participants are welcome to bring additional supplies to work with if they wish.

Enquiries / booking please e-mail: tootyunggallery@gmail.com

or Tel: 0849145499

TUTORS:

Lili Heller was born in 1981 in France; Lili Heller is a professional Visual Artist. She also has over ten years experience as an Art teacher for children, teenagers and adults.

She obtained her Visual Arts Masters in 2004 in the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille (France). In 2005, she then received a Masters of Theoretical Art Studies from the Université de Provence in France.

Since 2002 she has had many solo exhibitions in France and Germany and has participated in numerous group shows in France, Canada, Slovenia, Ireland and China. Her artistic work is in numerous public and private collections in France, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Slovenia, Canada, Brazil, China, and Thailand.

She has taught in Trinity Arts Workshop, Alliance Française and various other Art and Philosophy workshops in high schools and colleges.

Lili is the Education Director of BLOCK T, the largest independent Art Centre in Ireland. She is a highly experienced, devoted and passionate teacher.

www.blockt.ie

www.liliheller.com

Ben Readman is a Visual Artist and Artistic Director. He has completed artist residencies in Ireland, France, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and China, and has exhibited in many countries worldwide. In 2010 he won the Mourlot Prize for contemporary painting in Marseille, France, has been awarded funding from the Arts Council and Culture Ireland. His work is in many collections including the Office of Public Works, the Shelbourne Hotel, Lendava Castle, Mason Hayes & Curran, Deutsche Bank and Key Capital Investment.

Ben Readman has over 8 years experience as an Art Project Facilitator and teacher. He has worked for several educational institutions, and facilitated various visual art and film projects funded by the CDVEC, Bru Youth Services, Dublin 12 Drugs Task Force, Ballymun Task Force and others. He has trained teachers and has worked as an ICT and CPD development consultant. He has designed and built theatre and stage sets including the Fringe festival, Opera Ireland and Oxygen Music Festival. He has been a member of several judging panels, most recently the Arthur Guinness Projects Arts category 2013, and a 3 million euro project, of which he is also a mentor to the winners.

He is currently the Artistic and Marketing Director of BLOCK T, a multi-award winning creative organisation based in Dublin, and a full member of the Visual Arts Centre.

www.blockt.ie

www.benreadman.com

www.visualartscentre.ie