Last night I popped along to the private view of Tim Patrick’s exhibtion ‘Paintings of Light and Quiet’ at Gallery 40 in Brighton’s North Laine. It was a refreshing and inspiring evening’s viewing; compounding my reawakened love of paint. I wont spend too long expounding the many virtues of…
Whats on this week
Monday 28th
19:00- 21:30 Experimental life drawing: Charcoal
Wednesday 30th
12:00-14:00 Costumed Mixed Pose
19:30-22:00 Mixed pose
Thursday 31st
12:00-14:00 Lunchtime Life Drawing
19:30-22:00 Themed pose
Friday 1st
12:00-14:00 Lunchtime Life Drawing
19:30-22:00 Volunteers Friday
Saturday 2nd
11:00-13:30 Tutored Life Drawing: Gesture
17:30- 20:30 Long Pose
Sunday 3rd
11:00-13:30 Tutored Oil Painting: Landscape
17:00- 19:30 Jam £5 Life Drawing
*Tutored sessions this week:
‘Tutored Life Drawing: Gesture’ is a fully tutored drawing class lead by Jake Spicer, we will be learning how to deal with short poses in life drawing, exploring gesture drawing and creating fast, expressive sketches that capture the essence of the model. We will be working from a life model in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere with good company, tea, coffee and drawing materials all included.Click on the link above for more details.
‘Tutored Oil Painting: Landscape’ is a fully tutored oil painting session, suitable for all levels. We’ll be taking the class outside this week, just email if you would like to attend or if you would like more details.
Drawing Inspriation Awards
On the 17th of May a small Draw contingent traveled up to the Courtauld Institute of Art in London for the Campaign for Drawing’s annual Drawing Inspiration Awards where certificates of recognition are handed out to artists and institutions from across the globe for innovative and engaging Big Draw events. After a jaunt around the Courtauld’s wonderful collection Chris Orr, RA gave an inspiring talk about his passion for drawing followed by a ceremony where 16 certificates were awarded to groups from around the world.
We won a Drawing Inspiration Award (we were runners up for the main Barbara Whatmore award) for our White Night event ‘Corporeal: A Night of Drawing from the Human Figure’. This isn’t just an award for the huge team of volunteers that helped put the event on but a congratulations to everyone that drew on that night; over 650 people drew until 4am in the morning and it is this vast and continuing participation in our events that makes them so inspiring to run.
The Argus recently ran a piece about how Brighton White Night wont be happening this year. The last three years we have, with the help of Donna Close and White Night, run a free drawing event that pushes boundaries and opens drawing up to everyone, engaging over 2000 people in total. This year will be no exception; whether White Night is going ahead or not we’ll be running another momentous event so keep your eyes peeled for details.
This 12th/13th/19th & 20th May we’ll be holding Open Studios at New England House showing off the work of over 25 artists in 9 studios, including new work by head tutor Jake Spicer.
We’ll also be holding free figure drawing, showcasing a new project by Shelley Morrow, Francesca Cluney and Emma Sandham King and printmaking workshops with Jessi Leroy Smith. More details are coming soon!
Grimms Fairy Tale themed life drawing based around the story of the Three Golden Hairs at the Keystone in Guildford. Photos by Nick Devenish
Some great poses and costume from Feryal this week at the Wednesday 12-2 session…
We’re taking a six week break from our Wednesday Night sessions at The Old Market in Hove to allow our friends at TOM to fill their marvelous venue with multitudinous May Festival delights. We’ll be continuing our drawing collaboration with TOM after May; in the meantime our full program is still running as normal at the New England House studio. TOM are holding some great shows over May, check out their program right here.
Here are a couple of quick drawings doodled from the back of Fierce Poses, our Children’s Festival event this Monday at Komedia. We had up to around 60-70 kids and parents coming to illustrate an evolving fairy tale of still poses enacted by our three theatrically costumed models Laura, Frankie and Kaylee. The models went into a pose and everybody would draw the tableau, voting on what should happen next in the story and directing the next pose to create the next scene.
Hopefully we should have some photos up soon of the day; in the meantime there are a whole load of other great activities happening every day as part of the festival. Take a look here.
Photos from The Old Market launch from 20th March; thanks to our photographer Nick Devenish, organizer Hester Berry and Natalie Kane from The Old Market aswell as our models Ottavio, Lucy P, Lucy C, Laura, Charlotte and Frankie.
Our drop-in TOM life drawing sessions are £6 and take place at The Old Market bar on Wednesday evenings from 7.30-10.
A pair of pictures from illustrators extraordinaire Geo Parkin (bottom) and Paul Cemmick (top), who very kindly indulged my request to create a collaborative drawing at our Spring Launch at The Old Market this Tuesday. Photos from the event will be coming soon; click on their names to view their marvelous blogs.
Costumed pose from the wonderful Johanna from yesterday. Drawing by Jake Spicer.
Life Drawing at TOM
This Tuesday (20th March) we will holding a Spring themed launch party for our new life drawing sessions at The Old Market in Hove with a bar, free figure
drawing, nibbles, music and fine company. It is a chance to draw to be sociable and to see the new space in which we’ll be holding our new weekly life drawing sessions. If you’d like to come along just turn up at The Old Market tomorrow any time between 19:00-23:00.
Drawing By Hester Berry
The Regular Sessions
The launch will kick off our new weekly sessions; with all the relaxed and friendly atmosphere of a normal Draw life class but with the TOM bar open for refreshments. The classes are untutored sessions with a mixture of long and short poses and basic materials supplied (just bring paper!) with support and advice available from Hester Berry. You can just drop in to the sessions, no need to book in advance.
Tuesday 20th March… Spring Launch Party / 19.00-23.00 / Free
Wednesday 21st March… TOM Life Drawing / 19.30-22.00 / £6
Wednesday 28th March… TOM Life Drawing / 19.30-22.00 / £6
Wednesday 4th April… TOM Life Drawing / 19.30-22.00 / £6
Wednesday 11th April… TOM Life Drawing / 19.30-22.00 / £6
The website will be updated with all of these sessions as normal, so just look out for the ones held at The Old Market.
The Old Market
The Old Market is a lovely venue in Hove, recently refurbished and reopened. Our life drawing sessions will be held on one of the smaller spaces within this arts venue. To find out more about TOM have a look on their website.
