What's included

The course guides you through with videos and written information. It is designed to build your skills as you go allowing for time to experiment with and get to know your materials before jumping into the main pieces.

  • The course includes 6 instructional videos including warm up exercises and 4 complete artworks.

  • Watch me create each piece from start to finish in real time

  • Start to finish demonstrations on the following artworks. 1. Scottish Loch in Charcoal 2. Lane and trees inks and mixed media 3.Highland cow charcoal drawing 4.Highland cow painting

  • All materials information is included.

  • All my paintings are available as downloadable images as well as all the reference images.

Who is it for?

This course is for anyone who wants to explore mark making and texture techniques. If you want to develop your own creative style, enjoy being playful and experimental with your materials or would like to try to introduce these elements into your work. This course can help you to develop a deeper connection to your own creative 'handwriting'

What you need

Previous experience with painting and drawing is not required to take this course. If you have a desire to experiment any materials you have can be adapted to use with these techniques. However I recommend using the best materials you can afford.

Materials

This is a basic list. A more extensive list is available in the course for each artwork created.

  • Drawing materials. willow charcoal, compressed charcoal, graphite, pencil and eraser

  • Any permanent ink such as acrylic or indian ink and mark making tools such as a dip pen, a feather, a sponge and so on

  • Acrylic paint - primary colours, black and white

  • 2-4 sheets of cartridge paper, 1-2 sheets of watercolour paper, 1-2 sheets of heavyweight smooth paper such as watercolour or acrylic paper

  • range of brushes, jar for water, palette, kitchen paper etc

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Welcome
  • 2

    artist mindfulness

    • Artist Mindfulness
  • 3

    Section 1 Charcoal drawing

    • welcome to section 1

    • Materials

    • Charcoal materials.

    • Scottish Loch

    • Scottish Loch charcoal drawing

    • Scottish Loch finished drawing

    • Scottish loch charcoal drawing tutorial
  • 4

    Section 2 Mark making with waterproof materials

    • welcome to section 2

    • Materials

    • Exploration of mark making with inks, coloured pencils and graphite

    • Lane and trees

    • In progress image (first stage)

    • Inky lane and trees

    • Finished Painting Lane and trees

    • Inky lane and trees step by step tutorial
  • 5

    Section 3 Highland cow

    • welcome to section 3

    • Materials

    • Highland Cow

    • Highland cow charcoal drawing

    • Highland cow finished painting

    • highland cow finished painting Full

    • highland cow finished charcoal drawing

    • Highland cow painting tutorial
  • 6

    Facebook Group

    • Join our private Facebook community for this course
Rebecca (Bec) Yoxall is an artist and tutor based in Cheshire UK, who is known for her loose and expressive style in a wide variety of materials and subjects. Rebecca has taught her 'in person' classes and workshops for 14 years in both higher education and private settings and has recently taken this experience online to bring her courses to a wider audience. Her designs have been available in national retailer Dunelm as well as her artwork adorning private collections across the globe. Rebecca's courses focus on finding ways to unlock creativity, freedom of expression and perfecting creative techniques. Every person has the ability to create and find joy in the process. Sometimes you just have to know where to start.