Life drawing - old and new...

30 minute pose

Life drawing is a great love of mine - I've been hooked since the age of 17 and done various fits and starts of it over the last 15 years... The last serious bout was an 8 week evening course 2years ago with a superb tutor - Sean Slater of Line and Form. His life paintings are wonderful and he's one of the best life tutors I have known, I learnt so much from him.

But of course, just as I felt I was starting to make real progress, the course ended. I managed one of his 6 hour life workshops which was excellent (& exhausting!) but its just a little too far to travel often.

Here are some more of the drawings I did with Sean's excellent tutorage...

One minute gesture poses which I love doing and are an invaluable warm up...

1minute again

30 minute pose

45 minute pose

1 hour pose

I wish I'd carried on from that point, but life gets in the way (in a big way sometimes!). I've been hankering after starting up again as regularly as possible, so I was really pleased to find an untutored drop in life group just 5 minutes away!

So, my first life drawings in two years? I felt very out of practice and there weren't many I could show without cringing - but it's a start, and I really enjoyed it... so here they are...

2 minutes

5 minutes

5 minutes

10 minutes

Looking forward to next weeks session...