Life Drawing Classes Tuesday Evening (BMI Venue)
£180.00
KEY COURSE INFORMATION
All Courses are for Adults over the age of 18 only
Tuesday evening Life Drawing (18:30-21:00)- Start Date September 8th to Nov 24th (12 consecutive weeks) Capacity 12 students
Venue – Birmingham and Midland Institute, 9 Margaret St, Birmingham B3 3BS
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Life Drawing Classes Birmingham
Drawing and Painting the Live Model
Join me for a wonderful opportunity to learn to draw the figure from observation. I’ll be using an experienced life model for each of the 12 weeks, studying the human form using various drawing media including pastels. There’s something exhilarating and deeply satisfying about studying the human body in all its graceful dynamism, especially using both drawing and paint media. It is a worthy endeavour that has been an important part of many artists’ training throughout the centuries. Although a difficult skill to master, mistakes become an integral part of the learning process; it is a discipline that will improve your observation and your appreciation of the challenges of drawing from life.
The sessions will begin with a variety of shorter ‘action’ poses, which will be executed mostly in pencil and charcoal. These quicker sketches, or gestural drawings, help with loosening up and getting students familiar with working from life, whilst also enjoying the process of observing the figure in dramatic poses. Gestural drawings are about capturing the essence of the pose, a sense of movement and flow, without the burden of details, or even accuracy. As the course progresses, I’ll extend the poses, giving students more time to appreciate the nuances of the figure, light and shadow, facial features, and other details.