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Life Drawing, 8th May

Life Drawing, 8th May

Bren modelled at life drawing on Tuesday. I enjoyed the variety of poses, and even drew part of the room using the mirror in the final drawing.

Life Drawing, 1st May

Life Drawing, 1st May

Mireille modelled at life drawing last night, holding some great twisting and leaning poses. I also enjoyed drawing her hair!

Sketchy Trees

Sketchy Trees

The first two drawings, in charcoal, are from a workshop on an artists' retreat back in February. It was (just) warm enough to sit outside, though I remember my hands freezing. Both charcoal sketches were drawn half looking at the paper, half looking only at the...

Life Drawing, 6th February

Life Drawing, 6th February

Last week I had a good life drawing session with lots of dynamic and interesting poses. I drew in conte pastel for the first half, which was an attempt to shake me up a bit and loosen my drawings. Though everything felt a bit messy I think it was good as an exercise....

Life Drawing, 9th January

Life Drawing, 9th January

My first drawing session after Christmas, and I was quite rusty ... it took me a while to warm up. We had a break just as I was beginning to feel I could draw again!

Life Drawing, December 2017

Life Drawing, December 2017

What with packing up and moving across most of the country and Christmas and New Year, it's taken me a while to post some of my life drawing sketches from December. Here's a selection!

Life Drawing … with Dog

Life Drawing … with Dog

Janey was the life model at this Tuesday's session, and she brought her dog along! It was fun to do quick gestures of the dog while also capturing her lovely poses.

Life Drawing, October 31st

Life Drawing, October 31st

Andy was modelling at this week's life drawing. He held some great poses, including one where he played the guitar. As he was actually playing the guitar rather than pretending to, I feel the final drawing has real movement.

Life Drawing, 24th October

Life Drawing, 24th October

Moving for work has meant I've had to search for another life drawing class ... thankfully this last week I found one! It's a great little group and the model this week, Helen, came up with some lovely poses. It'll be good to get back into regular classes again.