Kia ora koutou, Welcome to Episode 3! In this episode we look at movement and building. You’ll need a range of materials, which are all described in the first part of the recording. I invite you to listen to that part, then hit pause and get set up for a lovely just over an hour…
Author: Sian Torrington
A visual artist working in drawing and sculpture, making things, experimenting, writing about it, interpreting the environment as perceived through line and assemblage.
Sensitivity of touch – Episode 2 of the Anti-Perfectionism (lockdown) Recovery Sessions
Kia ora koutou, Welcome to the second episode of the Anti-Perfectionism (lockdown) recovery sessions. This one is just under an hour, and it’s called ‘Sensitivity of touch’. These sessions have been developed in response to Covid 19 and all the stress and change we’re all going through at the moment. The hope is that it…
The Anti-Perfectionism (lockdown) Recovery Sessions #1 – ‘Arriving with Ourselves’
Kia ora koutou! Welcome, to episode 1 of the Anti-Perfectionism (lockdown) Recovery Sessions. Just like the title says, this is about relaxing, playing, and letting what wants to come out, come out, just the way it is. It is audio only, so you can listen along and do it your way. There’s no model of…
Expressive Life Drawing class dates
Expressive Life Drawing At Toi poneke, Abel Smith St, Thursday 29th, October, 12th nov, 19th Nov, 26th Nov, 3rd Dec, 10th Dec, 6 – 8pm Learn to draw, or hone your skills with new, surprising and fun exercises. We generate a wide variety of marks and approaches to drawing, diving in and covering our pages…
Free online drawing class! The Anti-Perfectionism (lockdown) recovery sessions
Kia ora I’m Sian, and I’m here to offer you a free online drawing class. It’s in response to Covid 19, and all the change happening in the world at the moment. It’s called the Anti- Perfectionism Recovery Sessions, and it’s a series of 4 drawing sessions using colour, charcoal, collage and writing that you…
Queer and trans* drawing class
FULL CLASS- message me to go on the list for next time! Up next! We always have such a good time with this class. It’s wonderful to build community in a gentle way, while doing something together. We make drawings that are experiments – playful learning about materials, and then move into drawing a model….
How to get through – staying creative
I feel like writing a letter. It starts – Dear creatives, dear humans, dear fellow isolated and fearful friends. How shall we get through this time? I have felt myself shrinking and retreating fast – my whole body closing up as I read more and more online about this virus. But this is not good…
What if? Naenae drawing workshops
Sometimes if you have a question, you gotta get out and ask it with others. What came up really strongly in this free workshop to explore where we live, is that “All of our perspectives are different.” I heard that in different ways, all day, and yes, you’re so right! I love drawing as a…
Circling and returning
Recently I’ve been feeling like I’m at the top of a growth cycle. You know, just before things move forward in new ways, before a breakthrough. So this week I designed Expressive Life Drawing class to reflect this. We made 2 minute drawings, three of them, working across and around the body,using different techniques each…
What does expressive drawing mean?
What I teach is not easy, it’s not generally easy to express ourselves! It’s much easier to teach technical tips, and they’re really great to have in our toolkit. But expression? That’s a messy, unpredictable, original thing. Original because it’s different for everyone. Messy because we find out through doing, experimenting and trying stuff out….
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