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Overview
Features
- Working each week from a live nude model, you’ll focus on capturing the energy, movement, and expressive qualities of the human form.
- These Gestural Figure - Drawing and Painting workshops at Robert Gordon University emphasise observing and expressing physical action, speed, and movement, prioritising process, energy, and spontaneity in mark-making.
- Rooted in observation, instinct, and the physicality of drawing, the workshops encourage expressive approaches using gesture, colour, distortion, and tonal contrast to convey emotion and rhythm.
Programme Structure
What you will learn:
- You’ll begin with intuitive charcoal exercises, including blind and semi-blind contour drawing, alongside large-scale expressive studies.
- Through a combination of quick poses and varied techniques, you’ll develop fluidity, confidence, and a responsive approach to line and tone.
- As the workshops progress, you’ll explore layering, sequential figure studies, and semi-abstract compositions, experimenting with rhythm, transparency, and abstraction.
- Media such as ink, watercolour, and acrylic will be introduced through a series of guided exercises, enabling you to develop new techniques and build confidence and practical skills in working with these materials.
Key information
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Painting & Drawing View 62 other Short Courses in Painting & Drawing in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Tuition Fees
Living costs
Aberdeen
United Kingdom
729 - 1069 GBP / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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