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 art, drawing, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, short poses on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I had a nice email from Jessica Stride the other day
Hi Will,
I thought I’d send you my latest life drawings from your Thursday evening sessions, in case you’d like any of them for your blog. I’ve really enjoyed this term - it seemed to end so soon, and such a long break!
Looking forward to next [...]
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 art, drawing, evening class, exhibition, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, painting, short poses on March 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Just a few images from this Thursday’s class, taken during the coffee break…
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 [...]
Posted in Artists Work, Work by the Artists, expressionism, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, sculpture on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, it’s been a busy term. As well as running the usual classes I’ve been running another blog and website (see links) and haven’t really had the time to post as much work as I would have liked. I’m very happy therefore to be able to include some stone carvings by Emma Maiden who has been coming to the [...]
Posted in Artists Work, Life drawing in Bristol, Work by the Artists, art, drawing, evening class, expressionism, figure drawing, human form, life drawing, lifedrawing, painting, short poses on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve decided to make this a mass round up of images from this term’s life drawing class, a term that is now drawing to a close.(Two more weeks to go, but all being well we should be back in January) Images seven and nine by John Kincade and David Jones are of Suzanne, one of [...]
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