The Mighty Dave!

Last night I battled through the howling wind and rain with two colleagues, Nadia Gunning and her sister Rowy to attend the life drawing session at the Farm Tavern pub here in Brighton. Nadia and Rowy hadn't been to the class before and professed to be total beginners although their drawings impressed everyone and certainly didn't look like the work of beginners.
The session is hosted by the wonderful Rachel Mortimer who will give tuition if required and makes us do interesting and difficult things like drawing with the wrong hand and drawing without looking at the paper!

Our model was the fabulously sinewy Dave (I think! Apologies if I've got his name wrong.) who struck a series of dramatic, heroic poses and held them like a statue. My best efforts are below. A very enjoyable session and I hope the two "beginners" come again.

2 drawing sessions

This week I went to two different life drawing sessions here in Brighton where we're spoilt for choice.
The Monday night class upstairs at the Farm Tavern pub is my new regular spot as the girl who runs it Rachel Mortimer makes  us do interesting exercises like drawing with your wrong hand or drawing with a continuous line. My best attempts at drawing the fabulous Chiara are below.
Then on Tuesday night I went to Bill Donohoe's class at The Sussex Arts Club which is still my favourite. The model was a lovely young University student called Lottie whom I hadn't drawn before. She was excellent and my scribblings are below.

Sarah Jane! and more Emma

Yesterday afternoon as the snow festooned the town, the fabulous Alexa Garside and I had a private drawing session with the stunningly beautiful Sarah Jane Gay. She reminds me of a young Kirsten Scott Thomas whose etherial

presence has graced many a film like The English Patient. SJ has just returned from 3 months in Madrid where she became much more fluent in Spanish than I'll ever be. Below are my best efforts and below them are drawings form the new (to me) life drawing session at the Farm Tavern on a Monday night where I drew the always excellent model Emma Sandham-King in the company of some talented and interesting gals including the frighteningly talented Manon Delacroix.

Emma

I went along to Kate Shields' monthly life drawing session from 6.30 til 8 at the lovely, funky Marwood Cafe off Ship Street in Brighton last night. Our model was Emma who is always a joy to draw. Some nights you're hot and some night's you're not as someone once said but I was in the flow last night so here are most of my drawings.

Otto

Last night's model at Jake's Sunday session was Otto who bears a striking resemblance to the late actor pete Postlethwaite. Interesting chap to draw. I'd forgotten to take my favourite brush pen so I bought some charcoal and had a go with that. My good pal Alexa was there as was her good pal Pearl Bates who is also a very talented artist. So I was esteemed company.

Here are the best of my smearings.