Drawing and Seeing // A 3 Day Workshop with Artist Michael Wann // Weds July 10 - Fri July 12 // 10:00 - 16:00

Artist Michael Wann will return to Flux this July to teach a workshop that invites artists of all levels to explore a wide range of drawing techniques in charcoal.  Using mainly photos as source material, these classes are designed to encourage and support the act of looking and
drawing in an enjoyable, easy-going and informal manner.

All levels from beginners to more advanced are welcome to participate.

All materials and source materials are provided.

Day 1:

-artists talk

-upside down drawing

-blind contour drawing

-drawing the landscape:

-the thumbnail sketch

-composition, lines of perspective

-working out of black

Day 2:

-drawing the landscape:

-establishing composition

-demystifying subject matter

-scaling up

Day 3:

-portraiture:

-establishing the features of the face using a simple grid system.

-positive and negative space

-line and contour, shadow and tone

COURSE FEE: €350

All materials and source materials are provided.

Bio:

Michael Wann was born in Dublin in 1969, and lives and works in Sligo. He studied under Sean McSweeney at Sligo IT, graduating with a Diploma in Fine Art in 1992, and a Bachelor in Fine Art in 2003.

Michael has exhibited his drawing-based work widely in Ireland, including solo exhibitions with the Ashford Gallery, RHA, Cross Gallery, Dublin, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, The Model, Sligo, Custom House, Westport, Solstice, Navan, Draiocht, Dublin, and Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo.  His drawings have been selected for the Royal Hibernian Academy's Annual Exhibition every year since 2004, and he was awarded the AXA Insurance Drawing Prize at the RHA in 2006, and the ESB Sean Keating Prize and RHA Silver Medal in 2016.

Michael is a Fellow of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and has held residencies at Cill Rialig, Co. Kerry, and the Heinrich Boll Cottage on Achill, Co. Mayo.  In 2010 Hughie O'Donoghue selected Michael's work for the Tom Caldwell Drawing Prize and the Inaugural Rowel Friers Perpetual Trophy at the Royal Ulster Academy's Annual Exhibition, and in 2012 he was awarded a Merit Prize from the Trustees of The Golden Fleece.

His work forms part of public collections including the Boyle Civic Collection, Waterford Municipal Collection, Office of Public Works, Mayo County Council., Fingal County Council, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, AXA Insurance, the Ballinglen Archive, The Niland Collection, and The National Gallery of Ireland, as well as private collections in Ireland, U.K, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Refund Policy:

* Unfortunately, no refunds are given. Please make sure that you, or the person you are gifting the workshop to, can attend this workshop.

If you cannot attend the workshop we can reschedule your workshop if you inform us up to 21 days prior to the workshop's start date. If you request to reschedule less than 21 days before the workshop starting date we will not be in a position to change the date. Places can be given to a friend if you can no longer attend - please inform us as soon as you can with the new attendee's contact details.