This program for those with some drawing experience this is the opportunity to extend students ideas and skills to develop a more emotive and individual response to portraiture. Make self-portraits or bring their own sketches and photographs for studies of family or friends. Detailed preliminary studies provide starting points to develop a series of drawings. David Fairbairn demonstrates a range of exciting ways to build and layer images that investigate pose, character and mood. A life model is available for some sessions.
The National Art School is the oldest, most prestigious visual arts institute in Australia with origins that can be traced back to 1843. It has a rich tradition of artistic practice and well-renowned alumni. Housed in the historic walls of the old Darlinghurst Gaol in Sydney premier Arts precinct, the NAS offers a select number of full time students, Bachelor, Honours and Masters of Fine Art courses and for the community a comprehensive range of part-time and intensive short courses. The NAS utilizes the studio based Atelier Method of teaching where there is a high ratio of staff to students with intensive instruction by professional practicing artists taking place in a studio environment. Students have access to over 80 eminent practising artists with established studios and art historians who lecture, lead by example and provide intensive tuition. Drawing, art history and theory and their relationships to contemporary culture are taught each year of the undergraduate programs. For high school students, courses include the HSC Extension Workshops and for Year 11 students, the Dobell School.