English | 10 x 25 minutes

Producer: InProduction Ltd.
Availability: Worldwide, all media.



Crawshaw's Sketching and Drawing Course is a step-by-step guide to the techniques and materials needed for successful sketching and drawing. Each programme includes demonstrations of different sketching media, including pencils, pastels, felt-tips, charcoal, oils and watercolour. Also, each programme shows how to complete a successful sketch in under three minutes.

In common with all of Alwyn Crawshaw's series, this one was filmed entirely on location, this time in the beautiful islands of the Bahamas. Locations include the Governor's House for the Changing of the Guard, the three mile long Coral Sands Beach, a viewing platform thirty feet under the sea and a flamingo sanctuary. Alwyn's wife June co-presents the programmes.

Programme 1 - Introduction to sketching and drawing:
How to use a pencil, the different types of pencils and drawing papers, an information sketch of a palm tree, a watercolour sketch of a fruit stall and a three minute sketch of a fish.

Programme 2 - Perspective:
Finding 'eye level', the importance of the vanishing point, sketching a bell tower, and a three minute sketch of Alwyn in a hammock.

Programme 3 - Measuring, and using coloured pencils:
How to measure successfully, how to use coloured pencils, two sketches of quite different buildings, and a three minute sketch of a chair. Also, sketching with charcoal.

Programme 4 - Choosing your subject, and sketching in oils:
How to choose and frame your subject, the importance of focal points, sketching in oils and watercolours, a three minute sketch of a conch shell.

Programme 5 - Tonal values, using colour and black and white:
How to achieve shapes using tonal values and shadows, sketches of a bowl of fruit in charcoal, a fish in acrylic and a stall in watercolour.

Programme 6 - Sketching moving objects: people and animals:
How to sketch moving objects: sketches include Changing of The Guard, people leaving church and flamingos. A three minute sketch of a policeman under a canopy in Nassau.

Programme 7 - Sketching in pen and ink:
The famous Straw Market in Nassau is the location for this Programme. Sketches include a basket stall, a woman weaving and a man carving, all using pen and ink. Also, a three minute sketch of a straw hat.

Programme 8 - Sketching animals in different media:
How to observe. Sketches include a parrot on Alwyn's head in felt-tip, fish thirty feet under the sea in pencil, biro and watercolour, and iguanas and stingrays in conté crayons.

Programme 9 - Sketching in pastels (hard and soft):
A green cocktail, a bowl of exotic fruit and some hibiscus flowers are the subjects of sketches using pastels. Plus a three minute pencil sketch of a boat.

Programme 10 - Sketching for pleasure: four demonstrations:
In the final Programme, Alwyn and June choose some favorite subjects: a tug and Nassau's colonial library in watercolour, a fisherman's dock in pencil and some palm trees on Pink Sands beach.