Posted in art, art history, drawing, evening class, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, painting, short poses, worth a look on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I had a funny phone call from someone in the class who wanted to know if next week’s class was the last one of the winter term. (This was back in early December) They’d been driving in from Portishead the previous week and given up because there was a bad traffic jam. This was three weeks [...]
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 [...]
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