Learning to See (with Ruskin) online sessions 2025
6th September 2025, 4th October 2025, 31st December 2025
A series of informal, free, guided sessions online, inspired by John Ruskin's The Elements of Drawing.
New dates and times, on the first Saturday of each month, will be announced shortly, for a series running September 2025 to May 2026.
We suggest that attendees have the following materials to hand:
1. Ordinary A4 plain white printer-paper or similar (5 sheets perhaps) or a drawing notebook if you have one
2. Black 0.5 mm roller ball or felt tip pen (ref. eu.winsornewton.com/collections/fineliners/products/fineliner-black)
3. A4 tracing paper (2 sheets perhaps)
4. A sharp pencil (or two!)
5. An eraser
Sessions will usually run for 90 minutes.
If you have not attended a previous session, please register for the free sessions via email at communications@guildofstgeorge.org.uk.
RECORDINGS OF PREVIOUS SESSIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE.
READING THE TEXT OF THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING
If you would like to read The Elements of Drawing, it can be found online HERE, and you can find a facsimile of George Allen's edition of 1904 HERE.
The Ashmolean Museum's Elements of Drawing website contains eight short instruction videos from artist Stephen Farthing RA, who was the Ruskin Master of Drawing at the University of Oxford from 1990-2000, which you can watch HERE.
