England, UK
Pat Southern-Pearce
Pat Southern-Pearce, from the North of England, travels the world teaching workshops and is a favorite at USK Symposiums. She has been described as the Queen of toned paper and loves to experiment and try new things. She says her sketches are a response to the feel of a place, the atmosphere, the cold, the quietness: not just lines and marks on paper and she draws intuitively and quickly, working all over a page at once. A strong feature of her work, that many comment on, is the space she leaves, the breath in her work. For Pat, the things she chooses to leave out are almost as important as the things she chooses to put in. This will be her focus with us.
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Workshop Language: English
Not drawing every brick.
Key skills:
- How to study a scene and capture the essence, simply
- Learning to look in different ways
- BROADLY: seeing shapes against the sky
- MORE PRECISELY: finding the most interesting details
- DEEPLY: searching out underlying colours for energy
- Specific practical skills: blending, layering, sensitivity of line, more recession, achieved by blues and by variety of line and tool
Suggested material:
- Fountain pen and/or fude pen + black ink
- Peter Pauper watercolor crayons
- White Mitsubishi Signo uniball broad
- Coloured pencils: Pat loves Holbein Artists (thick & creamy/larger barrel) gorgeous blues, turquoises, pale creams. Choose individually not a basic set. Pat’s favourites in a list on request.
- Mid grey and/or kraft paper: sketchbook or loose sheets A4+
- Fine liner black or similar
- Resting board and clips to fit paper size
- Stool or chair
