Naomi

I've managed to fit  in an awful lot of life drawing since I got back from Mallorca where classes are as rare as a Mensa member in Magaluf. One of which was a private session with the extremely lovely Naomi Vernon who I've known vaguely for years through The New Venture Theatre group. She'd never posed  for an artist before and seemed to enjoy it so I'm hoping we can repeat the experience soon. Thanks Naomi!

Laura the fabulous Finn

Last week on my return from Mallorca I managed to fit in a couple of drawing sessions with Laura the fabulous Finn. One was a private session at my flat with Alexa Garside and the other was at the regular Tuesday night SCAC class. Laura is terrific to draw as she's very tall (6'3"), looks fabulous and can hold a pose like a statue. On top of that she has a great personality. I confess to being slightly smitten.
Hey ho! Dream on!

Rosy, oh, Rosy!

After a couple of weeks in Palma where there seem to be no life drawing classes I returned to Brighton where they are everywhere. Last Monday night, round at Kate Shields' wonderful flat a small group of eager drawers were treated to a modelling session by renowned poet and Russia-o-phile Rosy Carrick.
Here are some of my attempts to capture her loveliness.

Star Trek picture puzzle

One of the magazines I work for on a regular basis - the excellent SFX, likes to give me difficult challenges from time to time and this is the latest. What they wanted was a spread to go in the superb Star Trek special (available now at your local newsagents or on line) showing visual references to as many episode titles from all Star Trek series as I could fit in. From a list of 100 I managed to squeeze in 87. You'd have to be a total Trekkie to get them all methinks. It was a really fun job and the sort of challenge I love. Hope you like it.

Greta

A packed to the gunnels life drawing class last night at The Sussex Arts Club were treated to the sinous modelling skills of Greta. There were some notable newcomers in the class including master designer Nigel Spall, reknowned cartoonist Phil Dobson and expert illustrator and generally fab chap Pete Greenwood, who were all enthused by the experience and keen to repeat it. Here are my best efforts at portraying Greta. And then I'm off to Palma for a few weeks where life drawing classes are as dragon's eggs.

Ariane Plumley

On Tuesday night at The Sussex Arts Club our model was the lovely Ariane who had a wonderfully defined torso as, hopefully, you'll see from my sketches below.

Emma Sandham-King

Monday night's new life drawing session in Kate Shields' fabulous flat in Embassy Court, Brighton was attended by 8 or so artists. Our model was the always wonderful Emma who has more curves than than road in San Fransisco er... the one that curves a lot.
Anyway, here are my best daubings from a great session.