Key Topics addressed:
- Knowing Your Tools
- Measuring by Eye
- Observational Skills
- Still Life Drawing
- Life Drawing
- Blocking the Shapes
- Arranging a Composition
- Perspective
- Urban Sketching
- The Quality of an Edge
- Drawing Elements: Line & Tone
- Light and Shadow
4 week course
Saturdays 11:00-1:30
The Park Community Centre, D24 AH70
Starts 13th June 2026
Sign up for the Drawing & Sketching course happening between June & July 2026, with Adrian. This course is ideal for anyone looking to develop their drawing skills. Beginners and artists of all skill level are welcome. The dates of the classes are from the 13th of June, to the 4th of July. Each class will take place on Saturday morning and run for approximately 2 hours, up to 2.5 hours. You will need to bring your own personal drawing tools: a range of pencils, craft knife, eraser, drawing board(this can just be a reasonably sized flat surface, big enough to lay an A3 sized page on it), but newsprint paper will be provided to those who need it. You are welcome to bring more types of paper or surfaces to draw on if you so choose.
Who Teaches the Course?
Adrian Geary is an Art Teacher for secondary schools (currently training PME2), after-school primary, and adult classes and workshops. He is a practising artist working with oils, drawing, sculpture, and bookbinding.
Adrian is calm, kind, and highly knowledgeable in all manners design, visual art, and conceptual/historical visual studies. He leads a structured classroom, with clear instructions, support, and resources perfect for any type of student with or without additional needs.
Course Overview:
This is a 4-week course occurring on Saturday mornings in June and July aimed at artists of all levels, and ages. Adrian will teach you how to measure by eye, to draw still life objects, outdoor in nature and scenery, and how to draw the human form with Life Drawing models.
Each session will be broken up into a introduction and recap, a warm up period, short drawings, then we will have a 10-15 minute break, continuing with a 1 hour session. On days that we are doing Life Drawing (#3 & #4), classes will be an extra 30 minutes long to allow for more time with the models and to develop your drawings.
#1 – Introduction to Drawing – 13th June – 11am
Our first class will bring us through the drawing process, knowing your tools, and how to use them. Next, students will learn the comparative measuring technique, gesturing, blocking in basic shapes for composition, and the relationship of light and shadow. We will then explore creating simple forms by observing a collection of man-made and natural objects in a Still Life drawing session.
#2 – Landscapes & Urban Sketching – 20th June – 11am
In this second class, we will recap last week’s lesson, then move on to depicting scenery: both from nature and in the urban setting. Composition will be emphasised, as well as advanced measuring and perspective techniques (horizon line, vanishing points). This class we will also introduce Colour, and showing both the realistic palette and a more graphic imagined palette.
#3 – Life Drawing Session 1 of 2 – 27th June – 11am
This 2.5 hour class we will learn how to draw the human form, from life. We will start the class with a recap as normal, and then learn how to measure and plan the composition for drawing with good proportion. We will work on creating gestural drawings, which are loose and fast, before sitting for a little longer after the break with one or two poses for the remaining time.
We would ask for complete respect to our models throughout the session duration.
#4 – Life Drawing Session 2 of 2 – 4th July – 11am
Our second life drawing-based class (2.5 hours) will contain sitting poses, which will give students ample opportunity to render more detail, explore colour, and realise a complete finished drawing. Students will learn to define sketching edges, light, shadow, and finishing techniques.
We would ask for complete respect to our models throughout the session duration.
€190.00
total
€45.00 Deposit
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 14 days prior to the
workshop’s start date. If you request to
reschedule less than 14 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.
