Posted in Artists Work, anatomy, art, colour, evening class, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, painting, portraits, worth a look on February 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I first moved into Bristol in the late 1980’s it was great to discover the life drawing class that Sophie Howard used to run at St Werburgh’s community centre. It used to be run on a drop-in basis and cost something like £2.50 a session but it was [...]
Posted in Artists Work, anatomy, art, art history, colour, drawing, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, painting on October 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last week I was putting together a short slide talk for my Beginners art classes(visit www.paintanddraw.co.uk for more information) on various artist’s who’ve used pastel. Degas was there, of course but as an example of a contempory artist I also chose to include Paula Rego. In one or two ways there seemed to me [...]
Posted in Life drawing in Bristol, anatomy, art, art history, colour, drawing, exhibition, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, painting on September 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been going over a little information on the painter Sir William Coldstream( 1909-1987) for some of my classes next week. Traditionally artists have used many systems of measurement as an aid to accuracy, Coldstream is one of only two examples of artist’s I can think of who not only measured every last, tiny detail in their paintings (Euan [...]
Posted in Artists Work, anatomy, art, drawing, evening class, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, short poses on August 9, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve had these scans of Jon’s life drawings for a little while so apologies for not posting them earlier. I’ve been away in France running a painting holiday which was a lot of fun but still involved long hours sat at my computer screen putting together various handouts for the group. So even though [...]
Posted in Artists Work, anatomy, art, ceramics, colour, drawing, expressionism, figure drawing, life drawing, painting on July 20, 2007 | No Comments »
When I first started this blog Jitka Palmer was somebody whose work I was very keen to include. She was one of the very first people who came along when I first started the life drawing class at Bristol Grammar School, when I nearly gave myself repetitive strain injury carrying a heavy portfolio up [...]
Posted in Artists Work, anatomy, drawing, exhibition, gallery, life drawing, painting on July 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
If you live in or near Bristol you currently have a chance to see an exhibition by the Victorian “history” painter Frederic, Lord Leighton at the City Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition contains a broad selection of drawings from his career from early nature studies to the later chalk studies on tinted paper that [...]
Posted in Artists Work, anatomy, art, drawing, evening class, life drawing on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
The first of tonight’s life drawings were found tucked away with the drawing boards when the evening class at Bristol Grammar school finished this week. Most of the other paraphenalia we take home with us but as we can’t be fussed to take everything we leave the boards in a little cupboard in the corner of the sixth form common room.
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