Silverpoint Drawing Workshop

Learn how to draw with Silverpoint, a beautiful Renaissance drawing medium, through easy to understand video demonstrations, drawing exercises and projects.

Course Curriculum Includes:

• What is Silverpoint?
  • Introduction to the obscure/Renaissance art medium of silverpoint.
  • Silverpoint in Art History 
  • Contemporary Silverpoint Artists
• Silverpoint Materials
  • Supplies required to create silverpoint/metalpoint drawings.
• Silverpoint Drawing Exercises
  • Creating value scales in silverpoint
    learn to shade in various shapes to create volume
• Silverpoint Drawing Techniques
  • Demonstrations of a variety of silverpoint drawing techniques: crosshatching, scumbling, stippling, tonal building with circular strokes
• Silverpoint Sketching Assignments
  • Projects to practice silverpoint drawing methods and techniques
  • Drawing from digital reference photos supplied or from observation if you are more advanced

Landscape
Gestural Figure Studies
Still life
Nature studies 
Animal drawing 
Fabric folds

Bonus Project: Alternative Still Life-Trompe L’oeil 

• Drawing Sketch Transfer Techniques
  • Step by step methods to transfer sketches to silverpoint paper.
  • How to use a viewfinder 
  • How to use the grid transfer technique
•  Drawing With Other Metals-gold, copper, brass 
  • Alternative Materials / Adding Color To Silverpoint
  • Silverpoint with Pastel
  • Working on Toned Support/adding white chalk/paint
  • Silverpoint with colored pencil

• Framing and matting resources
• Access to our private online art community to communicate and share with other students in the course.

The Silverpoint Drawing Workshop launches on December 12, 2020.

The course is completely online and you have access to the course to work at your own pace.