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 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, 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 art, figure drawing, landscape, life drawing, painting on August 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The life drawing class at Bristol Grammar school will be starting again at the beginning of May 2008. so Summer will soon be upon us once more. If you’re looking for a life class and are interested in joining this one get in touch. Make sure you check all the various posts on this site before you [...]
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