Drawing Courses

Optical illusions occupy a curious place in our visual experience. They are drawings that do something they should not be able to do. Flat lines suggest depth. Static shapes seem to move. Forms turn, float, or fold back on themselves. What makes them compelling is not simply their strangeness, but the moment of uncertainty they introduce. The eye hesitates. The mind recalculates. For an instant, seeing becomes active rather than automatic. We are drawn to optical illusions be

We often imagine drawing as something directed by the eye, as if sight alone guides the pencil across the page, but a drawing begins before the first mark is made: the faint smell of sharpened wood, the subtle weight of the pencil settling between the fingers, the surface texture of a new piece of paper beneath the hand. These tiny sensations suggest that drawing is not only a visual action but also a tactile and auditory one. Drawing is a form of contact. When the pencil mov

We trust the geometry of the world far more than we realise. When we walk through a doorway or look down a street, we assume that space behaves in a stable, predictable way. Parallel lines stay parallel. Corners meet logically. Objects occupy volumes we can move around and understand. Reliable geometry is the framework that makes daily life navigable. Some shapes seem perfectly reasonable at first glance; coherent, solid, even elegantly constructed, yet collapse under the sli