Workshop info: In connection with my exhibition titled 'Paintings and Drawings' at the Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts, Rock Hill, South Carolina in March and April 2019 , I am offering workshops in drawing as a lead in to the 2 workshops during the exhibition. (Please see below for details and dates).
All drawings will be made from observation using simple 3-dimensional Subject matter and basic drawing implements. Participants may take any of the workshops and materials purchased will cover all workshops, with a few additions which I will supply. Previous experience not necessary as teaching will be geared towards beginners, intermediate and the more advanced draughtsmen.
To sign up go to www.yorkcountyarts.org then 'tickets' and scroll down til you find my workshops. Workshops are $60 each and are two and a half hours duration. You may sign up for as many as you want to, they are all different and 'stand alone', meaning, if you can only attend one Contour drawing session instead of two, for example, no problem!
Materials/Supplies:
Supplies amount to approximately $50 for all 14 of the Workshops. I will supply some also. Click on the link below (or copy it to your browser) to go to the supplies list I have prepared for the workshops, or you may pick up supplies locally, as you go:
You may get these supplies locally at Michael’s, Hobby Lobby or Binders in Charlotte or elsewhere. For the first two Workshops on Contour drawing you will only need graphite pencils and drawing paper an eraser and a sketchbook (all in bold below). Please see below for additional information about supplies or email me at [email protected] or call 803 554 1455 (leave a message and a number where I can reach you!) These items cost approximately $50 in total, depending on where you buy them. They will suffice for all 14 of the workshops, or you may buy as you go and omit items if you aren’t planning on taking a workshop.Michaels and Hobby Lobby carry Canson and Strathmore paper pads and sketchbooks. Either brand is suitable.
1 Small can of fixative (workable) 2 A sketchbook, not smaller than 4 x 6” 3 A box of 12 color pencils, Prismacolor brand quality 4 A colorless blender pencil (for use with color pencils) 5 A small brush, round or flat approx ¼” wide 6 A small bottle of black India ink 7 A pad of drawing paper, 14 x 17”, 80lb, 30 sheets 8 4 Conte crayons, one white, one black, one brown, one sanguine (red) 9 *Some charcoal pencils, B, 2B, 4B etc 10 *Graphite pencils, 2B, 3B, 4B etc 11 A hard eraser (‘Art Gum’ or Pink Pearl’) 12 A kneaded eraser 13 Small bottle (1.25oz) Elmer’s glue 14 A water-soluble graphite pencil
See dates below:
For Workshops 1 and 2, Contour, you will need items 2,7, 10 and 11
For Workshops 3 and 4, Gesture, you will need the same as above, i.e., items 2,7,10 and 11 but add some charcoal pencils, item 9 and conte crayons, item 8
For Workshops 5 and 6, Tonal, you will need items 1,2,7,8,9,10,11 and 12
For Workshops 7 and 8, Erasure, you will need items 1,2,7,8,9,10,11, and 12
For Workshops 9 and 10, Ink, you will need items 2,5,6,7, and10
For Workshops 11 and 12, Color, you will need items 2,3,4,7, and 10
For Workshops 13 and 14 , Mixed Media, you will need all items on the list!
Participants will be introduced to drawing using contour, a way of describing a subject with a single, clean line, aimed at achieving shape specificity.
Gesture uses a quick, energetic approach to drawing and many lines to achieve a basic description of the Subject. Participants will explore several different gestural techniques.
Tonal drawing introduces participants to various shading techniques in order to begin to build a volumetric, 3-D effect. This may used in conjunction with Contour or Gesture drawing.
January 2019
Tuesday Jan 15 10 – 12.30 Workshops 7 and 8 Thursday Jan 31 “
Erasure drawing:
Erasure drawing increases energy and spatial depth in a drawing by applying layers of media, which are intentionally erased and reapplied. A second technique using erasure uses a subtractive approach with tone.
These workshops will combine many of the techniques and media used in the previous workshops, but may also be taken on their own. Collage elements and gesso will be introduced to extend creative, expressive possibilities.
Marge Loudon Moody
Biographical Narrative
Marge Moody is a recently retired professor of Fine Arts from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, where she taught for 30 years. She worked primarily in Foundations, teaching Drawing and 2D Design to entering Freshmen, as well as teaching Figure drawing and mid – upper level drawing classes.
Since graduating from Art College in Scotland, Great Britain, in 1972, Marge has continued to develop her work in painting, drawing, collage and mixed media. She describes her work broadly as being landscape-based, which emanates from her experience of place through traveling as well as from her imagination.Her work varies in size from very small drawings to large paintings. Moody has exhibited her work in Great Britain, Washington D.C., New York, and in various galleries in the southeastern US.
Marge is a very dedicated artist with an on-going exhibition record. Some of her recent achievements include: in 2015 she was awarded a one-person show (‘SM15’) at FRONT Art Space, Tribeca, New York, NY where she displayed 16 small works. She has been invited to participate in the 15thParallax Art Fair in Chelsea, London, England, in February 2016. In 2013 she had one-person exhibitions of her work in Chicago, Illinois, and in Great Britain, two of 6 shows she had in 2013 as part of her ‘Made In America: 1983 – 2013’ exhibitions.Her work was selected for the large exhibition, ‘Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949 – 2012’at the SC State Museum, Columbia, SC. in 2012. The repeated recipient of many awards from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, as well as from the SC Arts Commission and the Arts and Science Council, Mecklenberg County, Marge’s work is part of many private and corporate collections in Great Britain and the US, including the South Carolina State Art Collection, the Medical University of SC Collection, Williams and Fudge and the Winthrop University Collection. She completed a residency at McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC in 2006 and at OBRAS – Portugal in 2015. She is married to Phil Moody, photographer, and has two grown sons.
