Embracing the Nude: Developing your Individual Vision
Sat, 17 Feb
|Banksia Beach
Join Pauline Adair for her workshop Embracing the Nude: Developing your Individual Vision Drawing the Figure in Charcoal with Pauline Saturday 17th February, 2024 9am -3.30pm


Time & Location
17 Feb 2024, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Banksia Beach, Bribie Island Community Arts Centre, 191 Sunderland Dr, Banksia Beach QLD 4507, Australia
About The Event
Join Pauline Adair for her workshop
Embracing the Nude: Developing your Individual Vision
Drawing the Figure in Charcoal with Pauline
Saturday 17th February, 2024
9am -3.30pm
Using photo references, after some quick warmups and some hand/eye coordination exercises, we will proceed to finished charcoal drawings. You will learn to draw more accurately with my technique of ‘seeing and then delivering’ marks to the paper.
I will show you how to switch easily between left and right brain thinking.
We will look at dynamic cropping, the portrait, and easy ways with hands & feet and why we should include them more often!
I will encourage participants to follow their own vision and develop their own individual style.
(Demonstration: Ink & Wash figure, if time allows)
COST: $75pp (BICAS members) $85 non-members.
BOOK here online or ph 07 3408 9288
Materials LIST
- 20 - 30 sheets of blank newsprint – cut into (flat, not rolled or folded)
- Rigid drawing board (approx.. 60 x 40 cm) – cut your paper in half, and clip it flat to this support…. you’re ready to draw on it!
- Some vine/willow charcoal, and some compressed charcoal in assorted sizes. (My fave compressed charcoal, if you need to buy a stick is Faber Castell ES PITT round.)
- Kneaded eraser – Faber Castell please
- White chalk or white pastel
- Three bulldog clips.
- Tissues – small packet
- One full sheet of cartridge paper (flat)
- Torchons or paper stump blenders if you have them.