{"id":6106,"date":"2017-02-20T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T08:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2017-02-18T14:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T14:40:29","slug":"maria-lusser-beginners-drawing-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/2017\/02\/maria-lusser-beginners-drawing-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Lusser &#8211; Beginners Drawing Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Maria Lusser and I am currently taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonartcollege.co.uk\/art-courses\/beginners-drawing-course\/\">Beginner&#8217;s Drawing Course<\/a> tutored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonartcollege.co.uk\/tutors\/monika-cilmi\/\">Monika Cilmi<\/a>. \u00a0As part of the course students are asked to submit drawings with increasing complexity and difficulty made with different media such as graphite and colour pencils, pen and ink, colour pencils and pastels. I find this very exciting and challenging and it helps to make fast progress. Monika provides very encouraging feedback and carefully answers my questions.<\/p>\n<p>She asked me if I would like to share two of my recent drawings for the college&#8217;s blog. Both are pen and ink drawings and made from reference photos. The first one showing a wall overgrown with ivy was made with a traditional holder, two different nibs and an ink bottle. For the second one depicting a Venetian mask I used two different liner pens. Although the traditional approach results in more characteristic marks I personally prefer the liner pens. They make drawing much faster and less fussy.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Lusser<br \/>\nBeginners Drawing Course<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Maria-Lusser1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Maria-Lusser1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Maria-Lusser1.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Maria-Lusser1-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Maria-Lusser2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Maria-Lusser2.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Maria-Lusser2-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Maria Lusser and I am currently taking the Beginner&#8217;s Drawing Course tutored by Monika Cilmi. \u00a0As part of the course students are asked to submit drawings with increasing complexity and difficulty made with different media such as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-art-courses-artwork","wpcat-6-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maria Lusser - Beginners Drawing Course<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My name is Maria Lusser and I am currently taking the Beginner&#039;s Drawing Course tutored by Monika Cilmi. \u00a0As part of the course students are asked to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/2017\/02\/maria-lusser-beginners-drawing-course\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maria Lusser - Beginners Drawing Course\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My name is Maria Lusser and I am currently taking the Beginner&#039;s Drawing Course tutored by Monika Cilmi. \u00a0As part of the course students are asked to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/2017\/02\/maria-lusser-beginners-drawing-course\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"London Art College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-20T08:34:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Maria-Lusser1.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"London Art College\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"London Art College\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\\\/news\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/maria-lusser-beginners-drawing-course\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\\\/news\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/maria-lusser-beginners-drawing-course\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"London Art College\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8c8d9535471a62069fdff9172bed0431\"},\"headline\":\"Maria Lusser &#8211; 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