And some 3 minute poses
Some 1 minute poses from June 26
Bianca with roses
An opulent figure
Jess
Jess was a replacement for the advertised model but she was fantastic. Here are some of the poses (we had 5×1 min., 5×3, 1×10, 1×20).
A marvellous exhibit
I had to go back for a second visit to https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/events/odyssey/The Open: Odyssey – Hastings Contemporary to take a photo of this wonderful ship. It was reportedly the first thing that sold.
I was also impressed by this exhibit:
Evita
Another DrawBrighton 1-hour session. Here are some of my sketches:
Clapmutt
A good model with a very unlikely prop: the curved back of a bow-back side chair from which he could withdraw some of the spindles. Some poses prompted the organiser to say ‘Do not try this at home’! As usual poses went from 1, 3, 10 to 20 minutes.
Landscape of a face
This is one of the two initial very quick sketches of the man.
This one is much bigger and was made in an unusual way: 15 minutes for first eye, 15 minutes for second eye, 15 minutes for the nose and 15 minutes for the mouth. The studio equipment allowed for focus on the feature being drawn and the model was super still!
Jade
Kelly and Linnea
More of the excellent sessions from DrawBrighton – don’t judge the marvellous models from my drawings! Especially when ‘drawing blind’ in some 1-minute poses it is easy to misplace or mis-size body parts! The model usually does 5×1-minute, 5×3-minute, 2×10-minute and 1×20-minute poses. The hour speeds by.
Some 1-minute poses
Some 3-minute poses
20-minute pose
From ‘remembered’ to drawn from model
A fall
A hug
a dance
ATC group
QI JANUARY-MARCH 2026
The brief: ‘Why not incorporate maps into the theme for this quarter?
Maps help us get from one place to another. Maybe we use the paper map or perhaps you are dependent on GPS. We map all sorts of things… we map out our day. We have human maps of our bodies. We have walking maps especially in tourist locations. I am sure you can think of many ways we use maps.’
ATC size is 2.5 inches x 3.5 inches. I foraged for pictures of ancient maps, charts and plans in a huge book I bought from Oxfam for pennies. I made one big collage using the pictures and some titles and then cut the desired size cards from it.
Now I see it, now I don’t
Think pink
From Anything Goes workshop cues: found text ‘poem’ and some pink combined.
Bertie from Brighton
Arnold’s party
An evening workshop with Royal Drawing School on Rhythm and Colour. Began with quick poses and then moving poses and finally created a ‘party’ with three versions of Arnold plus invented figures based on clothes hanging around the set.
Glue something!
In the Anything Goes course.
From my favourite source of scraps: Food magazine from Waitrose!
Life continues
Another modern miracle: model in Argentina, sketchers worldwide. Excellently run workshop from Draw Brighton with 1 minute, 3 minute and up to 20 minute poses.
Portrait session
Another Royal Drawing School evening workshop. Here are a couple of drawings done with ink brush pen and water. We were given 5-15 minutes. The model sat beautifully still BUT the same could not be said for her features! She had a wonderfully twitchy nose like a rabbit and eyes which went from near asleep to wide open!
Collage
From the first lesson in Everything Jane Davies: here is a sample of collage built over layered paint.
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