We're thrilled to announce we've teamed up with professional artist, Robert Dutton, for a brand-new series of live webinars. Across five sessions, Robert will cover a range of beautiful subjects and guide you through a variety of exciting drawing tools and techniques.

Plus, everyone who signs up for a webinar will receive Robert's suggested materials and reference photograph in their confirmation email ahead of the live session, so you can either follow along with Robert or try it for yourself afterwards, with the full webinar recording. Find the full details for each webinar, including how to sign up, below. 

Expressive drawing webinars with Robert Dutton

"Drawing is important to me as an artist because it's the foundation to all my successes as a professional artist. The new and innovative drawing media available today will be explored in a practical hands-on way with different creative workshop exercises, together with practical analysis of media used as we work.

Whether you're a beginner or more experienced artist, these exciting creative drawing webinars will guide you through the practical experiences in easy to follow step-by-steps, adding to your repertoire as an artist and creating wonderful expressive drawings too. 

I look forward to teaching you many of the skills featured in my latest popular publication with Search Press, ‘Drawing Dramatic Landscapes’, bringing the book alive and immersing you in the rewarding world of creative expressive drawing." - Robert Dutton ASGFA

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Webinar one - Drawing with graphite sticks and pencils

Thursday 10th February 2022 at 2:30pm

Tickets: £15.00

‘Paint, paint and more paint is what I want’, is the usual response by artists. In this webinar, I’ll show you how expressive drawing will add strength to your painting and add real value to further creative adventures with paint.

This webinar explores the exciting range of graphite drawing tools available to you as artists, to create expressive exploratory drawings in multiple layers.

Using the reference photograph provided, this evocative layered landscape with all those field patterns and sharp defined hedgerows will give you a great opportunity to put into practice what is explained and demonstrated for yourself drawing your landscape with conviction.

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Webinar two - Creative expression with charcoal 

Thursday 24th February 2022 at 2:30pm

Tickets: £15.00

Charcoal - that AMAZING artists' media! There's so much you can do with it and in this webinar I will show you how. Today’s artists don’t just have sticks. There are blocks, grades (from ‘H’ to ‘very soft’), liquid charcoal, powders and more!

This webinar takes you through the possibilities of adding new dimensions to working with a traditional media, in contemporary, new and exciting ways. To include liquid, powder and charcoal aquarelle all in the same expressive drawing creates amazing depth!

The reference photograph of one of the quieter Yorkshire Dales villages, ‘Thorpe’ in Upper Wharfedale (Near Grassington), provides you with lots of opportunities to explore texture and light, the main themes of this workshop, using different types of charcoal in combination.

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Webinar three - Painted drawings

Thursday 10th March 2022 at 2:30pm

Tickets: £15.00

Drawing media has never been as exciting and in this webinar you’ll learn how to move graphite into the painting realm. We will explore ways of painting with graphite - creating multiple layers of monotone, duo tone and combinations of subtle tints of glowing earth tones - transparent blue and subtle smoky greys.

This will be an exciting practical webinar, exploring drawn and painted graphite marks together with lots of successful outcomes on different textured papers. It will also be an eye opener to the new and innovative liquid graphite ‘paints’, which when combined with expressive drawn marks, create really exciting drawings indeed! 

The photographic scene for you to use in this webinar is local to me in North Yorkshire. Layers of liquid graphite will be wonderful to use to express the scene. Have your materials at the ready, this is going to be another good one! 

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Webinar four - Expressive layered landscapes

Thursday 24th March 2022 at 2:30pm

Tickets: £15.00

In this webinar, I will demonstrate and guide you through many different ways of successfully combining drawing media together (both charcoal and graphite) to create real depth and expression with your work. See how the combinations of both versatile drawing media work together in interesting and exciting ways, to create impressionistic and expressive contemporary drawings.

It's time to get dramatic! This moody and dramatic Lake District scene provides you with a great opportunity to delve in with the drawing media and create a wonderfully evocative scene emphasising the light, depth of tone (and more), to evoke drama and impact to this landscape composition.

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Webinar five - Go with the flow

Thursday 7th April 2022 at 2:30pm

Tickets: £15.00

Ink with charcoal and graphite can be a really exciting combination to express your ideas. Many different types of ink are used in my studio and are to be found in my creative kit bag for outdoor painting too. They add so much to your drawings, and in this webinar I will explain how successful colour combinations, with a limited colour palette, can further your continued expressive drawing experiences. 

The Langdale Pikes! They must be one of the most iconic mountain ranges and pinnacles in The Lake District and this is your opportunity to paint them from this wonderful lofty knoll at Tarn Hows. Learn how to quickly layer your painting with the different media, and learn how those initial inspirational layers with inks and drawing media quickly build an exciting painting. Balancing loose intuitive marks with expression and control creating a very exciting and evocative painting indeed.

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Important information

• The webinars will take place on Zoom and will last for approximately 1 hour including a Q&A session (these are approximate timings and may vary slightly).
• Once you have registered for the webinar, you'll receive an email confirmation containing your link to join the webinar on the day, plus Robert's suggested materials for the session.
• During the webinar, you'll have the opportunity to submit your questions and chat with fellow attendees using the Q&A and 'chat' buttons at the bottom of your screen. 
• The webinar will be recorded and will be made available to all registered attendees for a limited time following the live webinar.

If you're not sure how to join one of our Zoom webinars, or if you've not used Zoom before, check out our handy how-to guide.

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About Robert Dutton ASGFA

Robert is a professional artist and lives in North Yorkshire; a move he made with confidence from Leeds in March ‘21, to be closer to his ever popular painting and expressive drawing subject matter - the North York Moors, Yorkshire Dales, East Yorkshire Coast, and The Lake District.

Having qualified with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (with Honours), Robert worked as a professional Graphic Designer and illustrator for over 30 years in the commercial sector to include in-house positions with financial clients KPMG and PwC. 

Following successive shows in London with his work and sell out shows in the North of England, in 2013 Robert took the decision to become a full time artist when his expressive style of painting became popular and in demand.

Since then, his unique style has grown with increasing respect and he has won numerous and continual awards in leading national galleries and open art competitions. His work has been exhibited at ‘The Mall Galleries’ in London with the prestigious ‘Pastel Society’ and the Society of Graphic Fine Art, with whom he is an Associate Artist.

Robert also teaches popular and regular sell out residential art holidays in the Lake District at independent adult education colleges and with HF Holidays and more recently with The National Trust. He is a regular demonstrator nationally for art groups, a popular online art tutor and a regular contributor to The Artist’ magazine, as well as running his own workshops in North Yorkshire.

Prestigious brands such as Derwent, Nitram Charcoal (Canada) and Unison Colour pastels (Northumberland) have recognised and valued Robert's contributions to their brands with the quality of the work he continues to create in new and exciting ways with their different media. As a result, Robert has become an ambassador for each, creating innovative paintings and drawings that not only contribute to their popular products featured on their websites and packaging, but as award-winning works also. 

In March 2021, ‘Search Press’ published Robert’s latest book ‘Drawing Dramatic Landscapes’ (the first in their ‘Innovative Artist Series’) and this first edition has received much public acclaim and is a top-selling book. The 166 page exciting publication highlights Roberts’ unique style expressive style and connection to his dramatic landscape subjects. A must-have for any art enthusiast and collector!