Drawings

Royal Drawing School

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Self portrait, ink on paper 63 x 90cm

The class continues at RDS and again this proved challenging. This time drawing with the non writing hand and swapping our work with classmates halfway through poses. It produced really interesting images – collaborative and counterpoised – particularly when using differing combinations of drawing materials, say ink with charcoal.

When there is better daylight I will photograph and post this work along with a description of the model, poses and the way we were encouraged to look and make marks on paper.

Drawing classes

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Ink on paper, 63 x 90cm

I’ve just edited and cleared out most of my 2017-18 life drawing class scribbles. They made three big drawing rolls ready for recycling. The remainder drawings are posted elsewhere here.

The life drawing sessions were with Judy Purbeck at Hornsey Library and Taz and Tom at Tottenham Art Classes. Looking now for further challenges to fit in between my architectural and interior design tutoring I’ve enrolled at the Royal Drawing School (RDS) in Shoreditch, London. The course is called ‘The Unpredictability of Form: Drawing the Unexpected’ taught by Orlando and Cherry.

It is wonderful. Mind expanding.

I’ve not been so questioned before – to look differently, to let the marks do the talking, to draw on the floor, on such large expanses of paper, with a long stick attached to a messy piece of charcoal or inked sloppy brushes.

Dunwich Sea

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A drawing from the late autumn of 2018.

Oil pastel on paper, 42 x 29cm, 181020

Following a year of many visits to a temporary Degas exhibition at the National Gallery, London, finally a drawing which seems to be getting somewhere. The waves are beautiful even on a grey winter’s day on the edge of the North Sea.