The Reader: dot-art club

This 6 week block will combine exciting experimental and observational drawing exercises to develop your young artist’s creative skills and life-long love for art!

Programme: dot-art Club varies by block so that your young artists can keep coming back for more new and exciting creative adventures.

Young artists will delve into the world of sketching and mark making using various materials, taking inspiration from famous artists to create fantastic drawings. New skills will be developed and discovered using thrilling techniques such as blind drawing, gesture and timed drawing, continuous and expressive line, drawing the world around you using still life, contour and cross contour drawing. Topics will change from week to week, including figurative sketching, creating humorous caricatures from portraits and developing perspective.

Tutor: Phil Disley

Phil is an award winning illustrator working with both traditional and digital drawing techniques for business and in education.

Graduating from The University of Northumberland at Newcastle Upon Tyne with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design, Phil first entered the marketplace with The London Evening Standard, consequently attracting further commissions from both UK and USA. Phil regularly appears in The Spectator and his longest standing column ‘Wry Society ’ for The Financial Times he still illustrates to this day. Phil has won numerous design and editorial awards and has drawn, taught and lectured at a variety of institutions and events.

All materials will be provided.