We’d love you to join us for an evening of untutored life drawing, exploring a gentle mix of pose lengths in a calm, welcoming environment. This session is untutored, with Jake Spicer and James Ort sketching alongside the fellow artists.
Make it a full night out by arriving from 6.30pm for our pot‑luck dinner. Bring a dish and share it with your fellow artists. Then with full bellies, you can enjoy two uplifting hours of drawing together.
Please bring your own materials and paper, though you can purchase some paper from us on the night (please bring cash). Chairs, easels, and A1, A2 & A3 boards will be provided, and we’ll explore a variety of pose lengths throughout the session.
Whether you’re new or experienced, you’ll leave feeling inspired, refreshed, and encouraged in your creative journey.
COURSE DETAILS
Evening Format:
2 hours of life drawing, optional pot-luck dinner from 6.30pm
Meet fellow artists and enjoy breaking bread with them over a pot-luck dinner. You must bring a dish to share and be part of this rare opportunity to spend time with Jake Spicer and James Ort before immersing yourself in a couple of hours of life drawing, working form a professional model holding a variety of pose lengths.
ABOUT THE TUTOR
Jake Spicer
Co founder of Draw Brighton and the Drawing Circus, Jake is passionate about drawing and is equally passionate about teaching. Well renowed and respected among the wider art community, Jake has written numerous best selling books about drawing, has a monthly column for Artist & Illustrators magazine and gives lectures and classes on the applications of drawing as a tool for understanding, communication, artmaking and as a vehicle for social good. He is also undertaking a long term study into the fundamental processes of drawing and also paints when he can.
In the past he has worked with the BBC, ITV, Brighton University, The Big Draw, The Old Market Theatre, Creative Futures, West Dean, Playgroup Festival, Brighton and Hove Museums & RAM, The Camden Arts Centre, The National Portrait Gallery among others.
You can have a look at his website here.
Not only is life drawing an opportunity to hone your observational drawing skills, it is an chance to respond creatively to another person. Taking time to truly look at your model and make a personal, drawn response to their presence is a profoundly engaging and creatively stimulating act. Drawing together in a life class provides us with an opportunity to share ideas, borrow approaches from one another and to appreciate the breadth of different approaches that we all take to the subject of the human figure.
Jake Spicer – Course Tutor
I’ve been to many portrait courses and this one superseded them all 🙂
Jake was an excellent tutor. The course was well constructed and I picked up lots of useful tips. Our model – Manko – was the best I have worked from. Not only was she beautiful and very interesting to draw – she held poses and returned to poses with great accuracy. I would recommend this course to beginners or more practised artists.Pam Esseen
Had a really fun and informative day. Towersay is a great venue and always friendly and welcoming. Jake is an excellent teacher and explains every step well, his personality enthuses his students and l think we all looked at drawing from a new angle and Mike is a great model.
Steph Hudson
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