Vicki

Tuesday night's life drawing session at SCAC was a bit quieter than usual as a small but cuddly band of stalwarts gathered to draw our model Vicki. I was feeling a bit dodgy after spending an evening with my mate Paul's brother Adrian who'd picked up something dodgy after falling into a canal in Holland.
Probably psychological but instead of repairing to the local hostilery for much quaffage I went home.
Here are my best Vickis.

Cleo Kate

Last night I returned to my regular Tuesday night life drawing class at The Sussex Arts Club after a break of a few weeks while I was in Hungary and then recovering. Our model was the fabulous Kate who has often been compared to Bettie Page although I think she's more Cleopatra. It was good to see

regular Rich and another returnee, the excellent cartoonist and all round good egg- Geo Parkin. After 2 hour of attempting to capture Kate's pulchritude we repaired to Mrs Fitzherberts for much nattering and quaffage. Ugh my head! here are my best scribblings.

Trip to Debrecen

I'm out here in Hungary to get me teeth fixed. It's about a third of the price it is in England and it needs doing so here I am. I arrived yesterday and after booking in to the rather quaint, wooden, funky hotel I went for a walkabout and here are the shots I took. Debrecen on a Saturday afternoon is pretty dead with no shops open and not many people about but the centre is quite pretty. The food here seems good. I had a great fish soup for lunch. So now I've got to calm my nerves before tomorrow's procedure. This is not aided by the fact that the dentist's name is Atilla. Presumably Atilla the Hungarian. Fingers crossed!

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.