CRAWSHAW’S SKETCHING AND DRAWING COURSE
10 x 25’
Crawshaw's Sketching and Drawing Course 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 #he 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
Producer: InProduction Ltd.
Availability: Worldwide, all media.