Catherine

Last night's life drawing class at SCAC in Brighton was pretty full and the gathered horde of scibblers (including the return of last week's newbie Anton Binder) attempted to capture Catherine's
curves and curls on paper or iPad.
Here are my best attempts.

Portrait of the artist as a young nude man

I'm back in Brighton briefly and was asked by Amy Squirrel from Draw if she could interview me about my career as an artist for the Draw blog. She was hosting a life drawing session on Thursday night so I braved the wind and rain of mid-summer England and went. There were only a few attendees, probably due to the lousy weather but one of them was Jan Irving whom I've known for a while and always admired her amazing skill at capturing the figure in motion- that's tough! Our model was Ollie who I hadn't drawn before but he was very good. The theme was colour in art so he was posing with a paint brush and palette. Here are my best efforts from a very enjoyable session.

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.