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This course is designed to deepen your understanding of drawing as a fundamental artistic skill. The drawings made on this course will be studies of rhythm, thought and expression of line across different cultures. Each session will focus on a different drawing, covering a range of cultures, including Indian, Persian, Chinese, and European medieval and Renaissance traditions.

Thematically, we will explore depictions of birds and angels, the messengers between Heaven and Earth. "The idea of the birds’ movements and patterns made in the sky, are used as a way of describing the space; the clarity of marks, shapes, tones and pencil or brush strokes on the sheet of paper, every visible mark is an affirmation of being alive and is a symbol of the invisible. A suggestion of the sky as the interior of a dome, a half-sphere above the horizon is referred to when looking at the way space can be seen and drawn."

Throughout the course, students will engage in hands-on practice using brush and pencil to develop their dexterity, hand-eye coordination, and ability to express their inner thoughts and feelings through marks and strokes. Most importantly we will have gained insight into the minds of the artists who made/make Traditional Art.