Priya

Last Tuesday night at The Sussex Arts Club off Bond Street in Brighton our model was the rather beautiful Priya. Here are my best ones.

Kate Shields and the Zig Zag Method

Last night's session at the Farm Tavern was hosted, as usual, by Rachel Mortimer and our model this week was the talented and magnificent Kate Shields now residing in one of the most desirable flats in the whole of Brighton and Hove City (lucky cat!). There were only 5 artists present so it was a small bijou gathering and a fun and informal time was had by all. Rachel got us to try a drawing technique called The Zig Zag Method whereby you map out the figure going from point to point using straight lines until a correct image builds up then you can go over it with thicker lines and Hey Presto!- a good drawing! This theory actually seemed to work and we were all chuffed with the results. Mine is below top left. Have fun kiddies!

Laura the Fabulous Finn

Last night's life drawing session at The Sussex Arts Club was a packed house and our model was the rather wonderful 6'2" Finnish beauty Laura. She turned out to be a lovely girl as well as an excellent model and every pose which she held superbly was a delight to draw. As you can tell, I was very impressed, as were we all.
Here are my best efforts and I hope I get the chance to draw her again very soon.

More Emmas

Monday night's session at The Farm Tavern was co-hosted by Rachel Mortimer and the brilliant caricaturist Manon Delacroix. The latter was there to talk about drawing heads and figures by breaking them down into cubes. The former as an experiment got the 8 artists to draw Emma for one minute then pass the paper to the left and draw over the paper that they were passed for another minute and so on until you got back your original piece of paper. The results were very interesting and strangely varied.
here are my best normal sketches from an 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.

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.