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Life Drawing 12th November 2020

14/11/2020

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Poses- 3 x 2 mins, 2x 7mins,  1 x 20mins 1 x 40mins (approx.)
We looked at Jean Hippolyte Flandrin for inspiration.
This weeks Life Model was, Edmund.

Link to the images and more information about Hippolyte.
https://framemuseums.org/hippolyte-paul-and-auguste-flandrin/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Hippolyte_Flandrin

Conté Sketches.

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Life Drawings by Members

11/11/2020

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The online Thursday Night Life Drawing group and the Mid-Month 'Long Pose' sessions have become a small community of creative adventures, who support and share their work with each other.

We always have a short 'chat and review' session at the end of each session, which is lovely and post our work in a private 'Cluster' gallery each week and today some of our members have allowed me to share some of their recent drawings for everyone to view.

Many thanks, to Carol, Pauline, Sarah and Sue who have allowed me to share these fabulous Life Drawings. There are so many to choose from, 317 from the last 5 months, all of them are wonderful.

The ones I picked are a bit random looking at quick sketches some from longer poses, every drawing has merit in it own right without judgement. All are a spark of Art from the observation of Life Drawing to set alight flames of visual delight. : )

Many thanks go to our Life Models Fra Beecher and Andrew, for their inspiration and interpretations of the references of the human form, from ancient statues, renaissance through to contemporary artists.

Enjoy!

Penelope Rose

Carol's Life Drawing

Pauline's Life Drawings

Sarah's Life Drawings

Su Melville's Life Drawings

Https://www.SuMelville.com

Su is also a professional artist and workshop leader specialising in 'Art and Wellness' and Pastels.
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Life Drawing 14th to 19th October

19/10/2020

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Picture

The Long Pose Sunday 18th October

The theme this month was 'A Woman Reading'. This session's theme was proposed by our Life Model Fra and discussed with me following our Thursday night session. I very much appreciate our model's knowledge of art and ideas and how this as an artist influence our practice. 

Painting:
'Fra, Reading At Desk'
Acrylic on Primed Paper
2020
by Penelope Rose Cowley


Thursday Night Life Drawing Group

Icons and Statues

Following on from last week's Male Greek and Roman Statues we looked at a few Female Icons Statues some from Greece, Roman and Middle East. In my search, I found this article which in many ways contrasts or complements last week's article.  Last week our focus was on the whole body and inspired by some of the images I had chosen and those that Andrew knew himself such as The Boxer and the Kouros.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/13/absent-female-genitals-art-repeated

Icons and Statues

1. Clay figurine of the Canaanite goddess. (Who is probably Asherah early female God, known about in Syria, Israel, Egypt... I am personally very interested in the history of Female Gods and Asherah 'Queen of Heaven' was worshiped up to about 1000 BC until monotheism and patriarchy started to form...the history is fascinating)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-yhwh-became-god-1457732366

and for further reading down this rabbit hole - https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/04/12/lost-forgotten-goddess-asherah-queen-consort-sumerian-god-anu-ugaritic-god-el/

2. Three Graces

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Graces_Louvre_Ma287.jpg

3. Artemis (because she rocks!)

https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/artemis/

4. Greek Terracotta Figure of Seated Aphrodite
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/greek-terracotta-figure-seated-1871482179

5.Statuette of reclining nude goddess 1st century B.C. 1st century A.D.
https://www.thecityreview.com/worldbetween.html
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/759563

Wednesday Drop-in 14 th October

Introducing our new model Edmund...
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Inspiration for this weeks Life Drawings - Greek and Roman Statues

9/10/2020

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Greek and Roman Statues

This week we were inspired by a variety of statues. Our Model, Andrew also had rather good knowledge of these classical sculptures and model poses from his own knowledge to. In particular we had a little discuss about 'Kouros', for an informative read on the subject take a look at-

'THE ORIGINS OF THE KOUROS By REBECCA ANN DUNHAM'
http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0010838/dunham_r.pdf

Some our sparks of inspiration-

Ares Borghese is a Roman marble statue of the imperial era (1st or 2nd century AD)
By After Alcamenes, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15759965

Discobolus in National Roman Museum Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
circa 140 AD
marble

 Agasias of Ephesus

 Poseidon (Zeus), 46 B.C.

 Bronze Figure from the Artemisius at Cape Sounion

Guerrier combattant, dit le "Gladiateur Borghèse" (Fighting Warrior, called "Borghese Gladiator"), c. 100 BC
Marble

The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian (in Italian: Galata Morente) or The Dying Gladiator, is an Ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost sculpture from the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC) thought to have been made in bronze.

Statue of a Kouros, 6th century B.C.
Marble
76 2/5 in
194 cm


Interesting article-
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-ancient-greek-sculptures-small-penises

My Sketches from the Thursday Night Life Drawing Group

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Recent Life Drawing Practice

3/10/2020

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Thursday Night Life Drawing Group 1st October 2020

Charcoal sketches of Fra. For the first session of the month, we proceed with short and long poses following our model's lead. Next week I will be giving a short demo with a few tips and inspirating from an artist. 

30th Sept Drop-in 1 hour-

Negative drawing with putty rubber and charcoal follow by a pastel colour. 

Thursday Night Life Drawing Group 23rd Sept 2020

This week we took a page or 2 out of 'Quentin Blakes Unseen Art' (book and exhibition). I recommended using pen and ink and watercolour washes. Below are some of my drawings from the evening. Wonderful poses from our model Fra who was given the book a few weeks ago for her birthday which became our inspiration for the session.

Seeing the other side of Blake's work is a real treat...
Here are 2 blogs by people who visited the exhibition last year-

https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/100-figures-unseen-art-of-quentin-blake-house-of-illustration/

https://susanjoylu.com/2019/01/16/100-figures-the-unseen-art-of-quentin-blake/
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      • Hands and Feet
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      • Roath Park Stream and Waterfall
      • Welsh Landscape and Wild Grass
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