This course is ideal for designers from all disciplines who wish to improve their rendering techniques.  Many clients are still wowed by hand drawn drawings or those that are made to look hand drawn. Hand rendering can soften drawings and even make computer  generated images look more personal.

‘Painting is Jo’s passion’. An Art Foundation course and a First Class degree in Fine art at Brighton college of Art allowed her to start developing her creative ideas early on.

During the mid 80′s and early 90′s she worked in New York, Madrid and London designing for both the fashion and furnishing industries. This global design experience enabled her to establish a successful freelance design studio in London.

Having worked in the commercial world for a number of years Jo’s interest in the arts turned increasingly back to painting, to the point where she now devotes all her time to creating contemporary images.

The exploration and manipulation of a wide range of media is an integral part of the development of Jo’s work – ‘there are times when the creative process resembles alchemy more than art’. Her love of colour continues to be another recurrent theme, the palette often being limited to evoke an intensity of mood.

Jo’s abstracted landscapes and figurative paintings hang in a number of prestigious hotels and spas around the world. She is a successful exhibitor during, the renowned Oxford Art Weeks, shows her work in a range of galleries across the country and has a growing group of loyal collectors. She has been invited on many occasions to give presentations and demonstrations of her work.

For a taster video of Jo’s course please see below:

Week 1: Introduction to Basic Drafting (Pencil technique and shading)

Week 2: Plant Rendering Techniques (Marker pens and watercolour pencils)

Week 3: Planning and Rendering a landscape plan

Week 4: Introduction to Rendering with Marker pens

Architectural Rendering Courses Start on the First Saturday of every month. This is for designers and architects who want to improve their drawing and rendering techniques.

Materials and requirements:

Graphic Marker pens

A range of colouring pencils

Access to a scanner or digital printer

This course advocates Graphic Markers as the most appropriate and effective rendering medium.

Chartpakis is the brand I use as I find the colours good for plant rendering.  (if you find that these are not available locally you can order online, they cost approximately $6 or £4 each. If you already have a set of Graphic Marker pens use those and or assess the colours as you progress through the course (if this seems too big an investment)

The colours are as follows:

Chartpak Colours