Artist: Rob McDonald
We welcome Rob to lead a masterclass which will look at; Experimental Observational Drawing, Painting and Printmaking workshop.
The workshop will question what defines a drawing and will investigate this notion by exploring mark making by using a wide variety of drawing tools and mediums, building your understanding of what each drawing tool
can offer and express. Mark making can greatly convey what you are feeling and observing through a differentiation in the weight of line, the density of the mark to tonal contrasts and textures.
We will start with a series of warm up experimental exercises to develop
your observational skills.
We will then build a large scale collaborative layered final piece using
a wide variety of processes and drawing mediums including relief
printmaking, (creating a series of stamps).
The workshop will also help develop your understanding about
compositional values, through the use of scale, tone, texture and
colour. You will gain an appreciation of how you and others see and
interpret your surroundings by collaborative work to develop a large
scale interpretation and representation of local foliage and fauna.
The workshop will also help develop your understanding about
compositional values, through the use of scale, tone, texture and
colour.
Open to: Everyone! No experience required.
Where and when: 18th April 2025, 13:00 to 16:30 at Baptist Church, 135 Hill Road, Folkestone CT19 6LY. Free parking is available.
What to bring:
Materials will be supplied but artists are asked to bring Sketch books,
drawing tools including paint brushes.
We will be using Ink and Charcoal so please ensure you don’t wear your
best clothes.
Rob McDonald Bio
Rob McDonald is a multi-disciplined artist/designer, who has taught for
over 25 years on a wide spectrum of courses within H.E institutions
nationally, to delivering workshops at the Royal Academy and Turner
Contemporary.
His work spans contemporary Fine Art to Graphics and Illustration,
working between commissioned projects with high profile publishing and
advertising groups, to self-initiated projects, curating and exhibiting
his work with international arts organisations.
His work often focuses on visual mapping, documenting journeys both
physical and metaphysical, tracing geographical and cultural differences
to pictorial accounts and events.
Rob combines graphic sensibilities of a visual narrative through complex
structured images generated through, drawing, photography and found
images developed through print and installation, building an underlying
network of form, structure and interlinking compositions.