Mel Rye

Whether you want to loosen up, explore materials or improve the accuracy of your drawings, this jam-packed 60 minute personalised drawing session will help you refine your technical skills and develop your artistic voice.

Who Is This For?
All levels: Anyone who would like a more tailored approach to developing their drawing skills. Absolute beginners are most welcome! This would also be a really valuable session for anyone who feels stuck in a rut creatively, or would like to try some new approaches to drawing.

Here is what you can expect

Depending on your preferences, we can spend our time together working on:

• Exploring Materials: Identifying the best materials to suit you, and pushing them to explore some new ways of using them to create different effects in your drawing
• Exploring Methods: Working through a series of drawing exercises to explore different approaches to drawing and mark making you may not have tried before to help you gain confidence and develop your own personal visual language
• Exploring Techniques: Diving deep into a technical drawing skill such as how to construct a sketch from scratch, working with measuring and proportion to improve the accuracy of your drawing, or adding shading and value to introduce form, depth and contrast to your drawings.
• Exploring Ideas: Brainstorming through some drawing ideas in order to support you with identifying the best subject matter, materials and format to help maintain an ongoing drawing practice. We can also work on ideas to help overcome creative block, procrastination, finding inspiration and overcoming fear and perfectionism

An immersive hour of art-making as a tool for self-care, exploring materials and mindfulness exercises to help ground you in the present moment through pressure-free creative play

Who Is This For?
All levels: Anyone from absolute beginners to experienced artists can benefit from integrating mindfulness techniques into their Art 🙂

Here is what you can expect

Depending on your preferences, we can spend our time together focussing on:

• Exploring Materials: Mindful art-making can be applied to a wide range of materials from pencils, markers, paint, collage, digital applications and anything else you create with! Bring along your favorite materials and we will explore their potential together.
• Exploring Mindfulness Techniques: From simple rituals to help you transition into your creative art-making, to more specific mindful techniques tailored to your medium of choice, we can work together on developing your own personal toolkit of mindful art-making exercises.
• Exploring Ideas: We can brainstorm ideas to help you identify the best subject matter, materials and format to help maintain an ongoing mindful art-making practice. We can also work on ideas to help overcome creative block, procrastination, finding time and  inspiration and overcoming fear and perfectionism.

Whether you’d like feedback on your work, support brainstorming a creative project, have burning questions about working in the Art & Design Industry, or are looking for support to develop a teaching practice, this session is here to support you!

Who Is This For?
Anyone who would like a highly tailored approach to getting support with a current creative challenge

Here is what you can expect

This is an open ended session, which means we will spend our time together exploring whatever you choose.

Here are some examples of how we could use our time.

• Developing A Teaching Practice: From structuring great learning experiences to exploring a variety of teaching and learning opportunities, if you love the idea of teaching but don’t know where to begin, we can brainstorm through some ideas to equip you with a roadmap to get started.
• Portfolio Review: Getting clear, honest and detailed feedback on your work can make a huge impact on your creative journey. We can use our time together to reflect on your creative work and identify how best to develop it going forward.
• Brainstorming A Project: If you have a brief which is leaving you stumped, or you are faced with a creative project which you don’t know how to start, getting a fresh set of eyes on it to help you gain some clarity around your direction can be a great way to spend our time together.
• Asking Questions: If you have burning questions about working in the Art + Design Industry, technical questions around understanding specific techniques or concepts covered in my classes, our call can be a great context to explore these.