Draw-Sleep-Draw ONLINE

This is a recorded version of this course (originally released 2022). Lessons have been activated and are ready to be enjoyed at your own pace. Once you purchase the course, you will need to wait for the access email to be sent manually to you. Depending on the time of day and your time zone, there may be a few hours between purchase and email. Please type your email address carefully and check your junk folder.

Continued access period: LIFETIME.

SYLLABUS: Drawing every day is one of those things, like exercise, good food and love, that makes life worth living. Until you are hooked, you can’t really appreciate it. This course, with two short morning tasks suggested each day, and a further two each evening, aims to get you into a lifetime sketchbook habit.

There is masses of evidence (I will expand on this within the course) supporting the idea that making time to draw (doodle, sketch…whatever) regularly is good for cognition, memory, mood, and stress levels. As well as that, daily drawing builds a personal resource of images, marks and ideas to be tapped into in other areas of your life, as and when the need arises.

Not everyone can linger in bed with a sketchbook on waking of course. Nor do we all have the energy to put pen to paper at midnight or rise at 5am. We all move through different phases of life…with families, jobs, biorhythms and so on dictating when a sketchbook can be accessed. The exercises in this course take account of the shifting patterns of life, but firmly hold onto the premise that ring-fencing time for regular daily drawing can be life changing.

FORMAT: a new session (14 in total) was uploaded to a course page on my website every day during the live run of this course. Each 40-minute lesson contains two morning tasks and two evening tasks, with my response to each task demonstrated and reflected on. Content will remain accessible for the "lifetime" of the course. When I eventually observe that the course is no longer being accessed by students, I will email and give you four months notice of its retirement.

MATERIALS: a sketchbook you are comfortable working in on your lap and a selection of pens and pencils.

CONCESSIONS
The lower price is provided on an honesty box basis for people on a genuinely low income. It is funded via a private grant for widening participation in art education. The discount is not funded by customers paying the full price. Please access it only if you are in actual need.

COPYRIGHT
All content is copyright Tansy Hargan. By signing up for this course you agree not to share, distribute or monetise its content in any way. Videos are not to be replayed in classrooms and studios. If you are a teacher and would like to see me (in person or online) in your school or studio please get in touch [email protected]