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Life Drawing Thursday 23 April 2015

Steve by Russell

Paintings and drawings by Alex, Cathy, Ian, Ivan, Jane, Mati, Roger H, Roger S, Sandra, Sue, Sumi, Tony, Tracey and featured artist Russell.

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Life Drawing Thursday 16 April 2015

Fiona by Patrick

Paintings and drawings by Barry, Cathy, Dick, Hadyn, Isi, Ivan, Mati, Roger, Sandra, Steven, Sue D-Y, Sue, Tom, Tony and selected artist Patrick.

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Life Drawing Thursday 9 April 2015

Joseph by Hadyn

I was cream crackered, shattered, washed out and weary, my legs felt like jelly and my arms like spaghetti, banjaxed I was a shadow of my former self, a weakling, a mere stripling, my bulk masking the limpness of my soul, the last thing I wanted to do was life drawing.... and yet with my head hammering and hands trembling, legs aflame and ankles aching, I ploughed onwards, first one mark reluctantly followed by another, then a few more, slowly, slowly the flame spluttered into life, energy returned, first frustration and then enthusiasm, I might actually make something of this. Joseph has a twitch and suddenly the metronome of that flickering cheek becomes the rhythm of my hand holding a tremulous brush, stab, dab, mix and parry, the colours are smeared and smudged each piling one on top of the other, cancellations and revisions, how can one cheek hold so many challenges, up and down it flows, in and out the incremental changes model the nervous terrain and gradually a synonym of Joseph appears, it looks right but it's not right so the duel continues cheek to jowl until finally the merciless clock calls time gentleman please and once more I slump absolutely cream crackered.

Hadyn provides a master class in the drawing of an arm in perspective, economy of line and delicate modelling, it's a really lovely drawing in my opinion

Paintings and drawings by Barry, Cathy, Dick, Ian, Isi, Ivan, Mati, Roger, Steven, Sue D-Y, Sue, Tom, Tony and featured artist Hadyn.