I love life drawing! It is great to practice your skills, challenge yourself and unwind in a creative and relaxing environment. I joined
Bella Franks, artist and life drawing tutor at the delicious Notting Hill bakery,
Pearl and Groove for an evening class. I have been to a number of Bella's classes in 2016 (
#1 and
#2)
Bella always makes you feel at ease, curates a fab playlist to draw along to and has a gorgeous array of life model contacts. Last night's model (Sangfrid? I think) was amazing and posed with such grace and beauty. She really pushed our drawing skills further with some very unique and interesting poses.
We started with a warm-up of a 5-minute sketch then moved onto more sustained 20-minute drawings. I began the evening in monotone with willow charcoal and moved towards more expressive colours in Promarkers, pencil crayons and chalk pastels towards the end.
I thoroughly enjoyed myself and the added bonus of a Pearl and Groove gluten-free Blueberry cake at halftime was very yummy!
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5-minute sketch with willow charcoal |
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10-minute sketch with compressed charcoal |
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20-minute sketch with willow charcoal with red and yellow chalk pastels |
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20-minute sketch with Promarker pen, blue, red, yellow chalk pastel and blue pencil crayons |
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10-minute sketch with blue, red and yellow pencil crayons and blue and yellow chalk pastels |
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5-minute sketch with blue pencil crayon and blue chalk pastel |
Wow you are a really talented artist, and gf treats too. Sounds like a good evening.
ReplyDeleteYes, the treats were yummy!
DeleteWhat a lovely event! A good selection of drawings - I’ve hardly drawn at all this year so my skills are rather rusty 😢
ReplyDeleteHi Catherine, I need to practice more too. It's amazing how quickly you get rusty with drawing if you don't keep up the practice!
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