Enjoy drawing with ancient and new materials and techniques while exploring a little chemistry and art history at the same time. This is a silverpoint drawing class that will show you how to prepare surfaces and use soft metals to draw on panel and paper. Soft metals in their pure or close to pure form (such as silver, gold, lead, copper, and zinc) are used to make drawing marks.

Silver point was used by Leonardo Da Vinci and Albrecht Durer and predates drawing with graphite pencils. No sharpener required so especially useful for plein air sketching! You will explore drawing with scrap metals from the building and roofing and jewellery trades, with a traditional silver stylus and utensils made from copper, zinc, silver and other soft metals.

 After this class you will have a working knowledge of silverpoint drawing and another string to your bow and finally something useful to do with old broken silverware, jewellery and off cuts!