Charcoal Making and Drawing
with David Begley

Join artist David Begley for a day of drawing with charcoal. Participants will learn how to harvest and prepare wood for baking charcoal at home. Charcoals include ivy, vine, ash, cramp ball, cork, oak, willow, pine, and driftwood.

Participants explore mark making exercises, and learn about tone, line, pattern, form, and volume, through drawing from imagination and from observation.

Materials supplied. Limited to 12 places.

About The Artist

David Begley is a visual artist, writer, film maker, and arts educator based on the Wexford coast. He works through drawing, painting, print, video, and animation. His artworks can be found in the public collections of Contemporary Irish Art Society, EPA, INTO, OPW, and Wexford County Council. His animations and short films have been screened in galleries and film festivals in Ireland, UK, USA, Greece, France, and Czech Republic.

See David’s charcoal animations at: https://www.davidbegley.com/animation and his drawing at https://www.davidbegley.com/drawing

Refunds are offered up to 48 hours in advance of the event. Please email [email protected] to cancel. A full refund will be issued if the workshop is cancelled by Butler Gallery.