NOTAN WORKSHOPS

Notan is a Japanese word and means a pattern of lights and darks.
Online drawing workshops – How it works:

• Each Tuesday you receive a full-colour pdf workshop by email. The 10 page colour pdf has photos, illustrations, step by step projects, project briefs and more!
• The first two Notan projects are about 2 hours per week, but you may do more. This is in your own time during a five-day period. We do not use Zoom.
• You pin your drawing onto our secret Pinterest board at any stage, before Sunday night. and I comment on Mondays. (optional if you’d like feedback from me and wish to be part of a group.)
•  Pinterest: This creates a warm, friendly virtual workshop.
  The Pinterest board is only visible to members of your Notan group. When you enrol you receive some guidance about setting up
  a Pinterest board.
• We use basic materials, a few pencils, erasers and good cartridge paper. The lists for Notan Perspective and Patterns in Nature are slightly longer. A list will be sent to you a few days after you book.

Notan 1: The Four Values

BOOKING NOTAN – The Four Values

Level: Beginner & intermediate. A very good workshop for beginners in tonal drawing and to use as a resource for painting. All drawings are in pencil in a sketchbook or on cartridge paper. About 2 hours per week.

• Week 1: Four Values and The No frills sketch
• Week 2: Adding Texture to your drawing
• Week 3: Four ways to add depth
• Week 4: Moving mountains – changing the composition.

Tuesdays 6, 13, 20, 27 April (the next Notan 1 workshop will start in September, dates tbc.)

• Cost: £45 early bird offer expires 26th March, when it will revert to £60.
  Book a place on the Notan workshop

Email lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk to pay by BACS
A few days after booking you will receive an equipment list by email.

Notan 2: Perspective

Level: Beginner & intermediate. This workshop (ideally) follows on from Notan 1 and introduces more pencil techniques.
However, it is a great workshop for getting to grips with perspective at any stage of your drawing experience so you do not need to have done Notan Four Values. Allow about 2 hours per week, but longer on Week 3. Pencil drawings on cartridge paper.

• Week 1: An overview of perspective and one-point-perspective.
• Week 2: Refining one-point-perspective and ‘masking’.
• Week 3: Buildings in two-point-perspective and eraser drawing.
• Week 4: Working with perspective and a suggestion of figures.

BOOKING NOTAN 2 – Perspective
(the next Notan 2 workshop will start in September, dates tbc.)

• Dates: Tuesdays 6, 13, 20, 27 April
• Cost: £45 early bird offer expires 26th March, when it will revert to £60.
• Book a place on the Notan Perspective workshop
• Email lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk to pay by BACS

A few days after booking you will receive an equipment list by email.

Notan 3:  Patterns in Nature

Level: Intermediate and Multi-level : allow about 3 – 4hours per week. You do not have to have done the other Notans to do this one, unless you are a beginner. This workshop is about studying the patterns in Nature to increase observation in drawing, drawing skills and to use as a resource for painting or design.

• Week 1: Rhythmic Line in Nature – ink and pencil
• Week 2: Shape placement in Nature – ink and pencil
• Week 3: Tonal spirals and patterns of growth
• Week 4: Textural repetition

BOOKING NOTAN 3 – Patterns in Nature
(the next Notan 3 workshop will start in September, dates tbc.)

• Tuesdays 6, 13, 20, 27 April
• Cost: £45 early bird offer expires 26th March, when it will revert to £60.
• Book a place on the Notan Patterns in Nature Workshop
• Email lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk to pay by BACS

A few days after booking you will receive an equipment list by email.

To do this workshop you need to have done Notan 1– the four values or the Notan Introduction (booking information below). You may do this privately in advance (instead of with a group). It will take a full day in your own time.

 

Notan 4: Notan in Colour

Level: Multi-level.  You need to have completed Notan 1 or Notan Introduction. Allow about 4-6 hours per week. You need to be familiar with your chosen materials as this is about colour, not technique.

Notan in Colour – Landscapes with colour shifts

• Week One: A harmonious segment with a colour POP
• Week Two: The Complementary Palette inspired by Matisse
• Week Three: Split Comps. inspired by Tom Thompson & Group of 7
• Week Four: The Power of Yellow Inspired by Winifred Nicholson.

Each week we will create colour palettes – you will choose your own palette within a brief.  You will use your chosen medium – I suggest water colour, gouache, acrylic or oils. I will be demonstrating using oils. Acrylic or oils is probably the best choice as it is closest to the models.

The aim is to paint the same Notan study in all 4 weeks evoking completely different moods. Hopefully, you will do another painting as well , using your new palette and pin these on our secret Pinterest board.

Notan Introduction: email lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk for a Pay-pal invoice for £25. This will familiarize you with how to plan your Notan.

BOOKING NOTAN 4 – Notan in Colour
(the next Notan 4 workshop will start in September, dates tbc.)

• Tuesdays 6, 13, 20, 27 April
• Cost: £45 early bird offer expires 26th March, when it will revert to £60.
• Book a place on Notan on Colour Workshop
• Email lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk to pay by BACS

  A few days after booking you will receive an equipment list by email.