Alex Beckinsale
South Australian Visual Artist & Educator
Welcome
Alex Beckinsale is an early career artist whose work is inspired by strange narratives, folklore, and popular culture.
Her practice primarily focuses on utilising both digital and traditional drawing to represent the human figure. She works both from live models and photographs as references to create her drawings.
Alex spends her time between her home studio and teaching art workshops for teens and adults around South Australia.
Upcoming Workshop -
Sunday 11 Oct - Sunday 22 Nov | 7 weeks
2:30 - 5:00pm
Discover the joy of combining watercolour and coloured pencil in this relaxed, skill-building course designed for beginners and intermediate artists alike.
Over seven weeks you’ll learn materials and techniques, develop skills by focusing on a range of subjects, and create finished mixed-media pieces. Each session includes demonstrations, step-by-step exercises, and guided practice with constructive feedback to help you build confidence and a personal style ☺️
Week 1 - Introduction to mixing materials + creating different textures
Week 2 - Capturing detail
Week 3 - Animals
Week 4 - Fun & Funky Illustration styles
Week 5 - Portraits
Week 6 - Final project begins
Week 7 - Finishing final project
You are welcome to bring in digital drawing tablets and any other materials you want to create with ☺️ Please make sure that you’ve read and understand the workshops Terms & Conditionsand behavioural Code of Conductbefore enrolling.
Required materials:
Watercolour Set - if you have one already bring that ☺️ if not we’ve found in previous watercolour courses that this Daler Rowney palette has GREAT colour selections. But if not a Mont Marte set like this is a cheap option and the Koi palette is a better quality option but a little pricier
Soft Brushes
A4 or A3 Canson Watercolour Sketchbook
Paper towel
Graphite pencils
Hard & kneadable erasers
Optional: Water Brush Pen
Workshops
Alex is a certified Trainer & Assessor and is extremely passionate about helping others learn more about the world of art and drawing.
She specialises in teaching people both traditional and digital drawing, with a focus on figurative art, character illustration and life drawing.
She runs a number of of workshops and courses throughout South Australia. She does this both independently and through local arts institutions such as Adelaide Central School of Art, Carclew, the Art Gallery of South Australia and more…
Traditional Drawing
Alex trained as a traditional artist during her four year BVA (Hons) degree at Adelaide Central School of Art.
Art school reinforced her love of the discipline and techniques of observational drawing, especially that of charcoal and pastel figurative work.
Alex currently works primarily in these mediums, but also creates graphite and ink works.
Digital Drawing
Digital drawing first became part of Alex’s practice in 2016. Since then it’s flexibility and possibilities have made it an invaluable part of her studio work. She utilises the medium to create works for exhibitions, teaching demos, resources, illustrations and to plan compositions for her traditional drawings.
Life drawing has become an increasingly important aspect of Alex’s practice.
The practice of working from life has increased Alex’s knowledge of human anatomy and how to draw the figure with accuracy.
She regularly runs beginner - intermediate courses in both nude and clothed life drawing. If you’re interested in learning life drawing from Alex check out her upcoming workshops.
Life Drawing
shop original art
Purchase your own one of a kind artworks or commission Alex to create a piece especially for you
