Coastline: Nature in Ink and Coloured Pencil

This course will focus on coastal subjects from shells, pebbles and seaweeds to birds and shore plants. Students can choose their topics and follow techniques for ink drawing, embossing and coloured pencil work, building up creative natural history images. This is slow art, but therapeutic and very rewarding, and you will receive plenty of individual tuition and advice.

Helen Hanson

Helen Hanson was for many years a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists, a winner of the President’s Award and a former Council Member of the Society of Women Artists. She was a successful printmaker, exhibiting her landscape etchings in galleries and exhibitions throughout Britain. Always inspired by the natural world, she now concentrates on ink and coloured pencil landscapes and natural history subjects and enjoys tutoring adults. She is the author of two books for Crowood Press, Landscape in Ink and Coloured Pencil and Nature in Ink and Coloured Pencil

We have four buildings that are used for visitor accommodation. Whilst most rooms are either en-suite or have a dedicated bathroom, there are some
rooms in The Mill that share showers and toilets at the end of the hall. If this is
un-suitable for you please make the office staff aware upon booking or as soon as possible.

Please be aware that you are visiting a Field Centre that caters in the main for school parties; the accommodation is basic and dormitory style, but warm and comfortable.

Arrival Day

Check-in is between 1600 and 1800. If you are arriving after 1800, please advise us so we can arrange a self-check-in.

You will meet the tutor at Dinner, following which you will have your first session

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  Expert Tuition
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  Free Wi-Fi
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  Full Board Accommodation
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  Hot and Cold Drinks
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  Picnic Lunch

Full board accommodation and picnic lunch is available for resident bookings only.

Refreshments are included for all, but non-resident bookings are advised to bring lunch with you.

What to bring

• Artist’s coloured pencils (preferably non-watercolour, although these can be used dry) - Faber Castell Polychromos, Derwent Artist or Procolour, Caran D’Ache Pablo or similar.
• A4 Bristol board (Strathmore Series 300 smooth is recommended). This will be available for purchase from the tutor by the sheet.
• An HB pencil and ruler
• A good pencil sharpener with a very sharp blade (Möbius & Ruppert round brass sharpener is highly recommended)
• A grey putty rubber
• Waterproof Indian ink pens - Faber Castell Pitt artist pens (SX, S, F, M) or Staedtler pigment liner pens (0.5, 0.3, 0.1 and ultra fine 0.05)
• A sketch pad or cartridge paper for preliminary drawings.

There will be plenty of subjects to inspire, but feel free to bring your own photos, images or sketches. Tuition will be suited to the topic and habitat, so please choose relevant images to get maximum benefit.