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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Posted in Artists Work, abstract, art, colour, drawing, evening class, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, painting, short poses on October 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s nice to be able to put some more life drawings up by Peri Taylor. She’s been coming to the class for a long time and was good enough to be one of the first people to donate some life drawings for this project. Because this is a blog of course, and because blogs get updated from [...]
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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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Okay, I know I’m wandering wildly off topic, but this is the part where you get to see my holiday snaps. To be honest I’d never really thought about running a painting holiday. I’ve had plenty of experience tutoring groups over the years but the extra work involved in booking flights, organizing somewhere to stay, [...]
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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 [...]
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Here are some life drawings and photos, kindly donated by Nick Battin., who has been coming on and off to the Bristol Grammar school life drawing class for more years than I care to remember. Thanks Nick
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The life drawing classes will be starting again at the end of April/beginning of May 2008 so if you’re interested get in touch. You can find some more information about the class by visiting the “about” page of this website We’ll be carrying on for ten weeks after which we will relocate to Hofield for the Summer before returning to our [...]
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