Please note: This listing is for the RECORDING of a live class which took place on 8th January 2025 
 
What are Drawing Rules?
 
Drawing Rules are ideas we have picked up about what we can and cannot do when drawing. These are subconscious ideas received from all sorts of sources - education, family, friends, culture at large. In Jo’s work as an educator she has seen many, many rules at play whilst people draw. These rule are very restrictive and inhibiting. 
 
What are these workshops? 
 
This series of online classes  investigate the subconscious rules that hold us back from looser, more creative & more expressive drawing. Each class is structured around a single theme. Through questions, examples, demonstrations and exercises you will discover ways to break the drawing rules that may be holding you back. 
 
This is an experimental class which will help you reflect on and take notice of how you draw. Each session will include experimental mark making and the application of techniques to other forms of drawing such as observational drawing. These classes are designed to get you PLAYING. 
 
This class is suitable for any level of experience 
 
This class is suitable for you if… 
 
You feel stuck in a rut 
You want to play more but don’t know how 
You envy the exciting marks of other artists and wish you could find a way to loosen up your own mark making
 
What do I need for this workshop?
 
Ability to access zoom 
The zoom Link - which will be available to DOWNLOAD on purchase, as well as shared with you via email 
 
Materials
 
ANY drawing materials are suitable for this class. 
This could include but is not limited to - marker pens, biros, pencils, crayons, pens, charcoal, graphite, soft pastels, oil pastels. 
As the emphasis will be on experimentation you might like to have a few materials accessible. 
 
Paper - any kind any size
But we encourage you to find some sort of large surface you can draw on - recycled cardboard, packing paper, or any large paper
 
Jo also used - a cardboard tube, elastic band, coloured tape & scrap paper - but these are not essential 
 
What Participants said... 
 
That was lovely - felt doing the drawing in my body. Completely new experience. (Evie)
 
This was amazing! Lifechanging ! Thank you so much (Jan)
 
Thanks Jo.  I’ve learned so much about loosening up and playing more (Jane)
 
This was the most fun I've ever had drawing!!!!! And it shows so much in the oak leaf drawing which I think is my fave drawing in a long time (Hannah)
 
Such great techniques for perfectionists who want to draw but “can’t.” So freeing, so fun! (Kate)
 
Thank you, glad to have attended the session. It was amazing (Sukriti)
 
I was muttering to myself beforehand that I should know what I need to know…everything is inside you sort of thing… But as soon as we started I knew I’d made a good choice. Now I feel liberated (Di) 
 
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