Posted in Artists Work on July 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Periodically people leave things behind in the class and despite my best efforts it’s not always possible to reunite them with their missing possessions. When I found this particular sketchbook, however, I recognised the style immediately. It took only fifteen minutes after I returned home that evening to get a phone call. This is either my [...]
Posted in Artists Work on July 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Mark Watkin (see previous post) was talking to me about the recent traffic stopping concert in Bristol by ageing rocker and Ally Mcbeal supporting actor Jon Bon Jovi. Apparently it cost over £50! “…..and your class costs only £49 Will”. If you’re a big fan of what used to be called poodle rock I guess £50 is [...]
Posted in Artists Work on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to Mark Watkin, an all-round nice man and smartest baseball cap wearer in Bristol for these figure drawings. Should you always worry about putting faces on to your life drawings? I don’t think so. Particulatly If you’re a beginner (which Mark isn’t) I think it’s much better to take a leaf out of someone like Mattisse’s book and put [...]
Posted in Artists Work, art, drawing, expressionism, painting on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s another little something for you to watch. The late Robert Rauschenburg discusses his piece “Erased deKooning drawing”. Hope you enjoy.
Posted in Artists Work, drawing, figure drawing, human form, puppet, sculpture, worth looking at on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s something from this Saturday’s Guardian that you may find interesting. It shows a view of Paula Rego’s studio with a partly completed painting side by side with a series of home made lay figures. As I hope you can see in the photograph the painting is based on the arrangement of figures. [...]
Posted in Artists Work, art, drawing, expressionism, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, lifedrawing, short poses on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had the chance to use some great models this term. Try getting your hands into the same position as the model in the sketch below third from left, difficult isn’t it? Last night Jade and Benita came up to me during the coffee break and suggested the idea of doing some poses where they could balance and lean against each [...]
Posted in Artists Work, Life drawing in Bristol, art, colour, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, painting, painting holiday on February 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just returned from organising another trip to Auribeau sur Siagne in the South of France this week. Click on the link if you’d like to read more about it. On my return I found an email from Caroline Watson informing me that she will be exhibiting some paintings at the Rainbow Cafe in Clifton Village in Bristol from the [...]
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 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, Life drawing in Bristol, art, colour, drawing, evening class, figure drawing, human form, illustration, life drawing, short poses, worth looking at on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Paula joined the group fairly recently. We first spoke over the phone towards the end of last term. Then she left a comment on this blog although neither of us had, at this point made the connection that we were the same people. I just assumed she was from London, although she has actually [...]
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