Brian Dennis led this meeting of the Unit. This week we will explore and experiment with working in layers.We may want to work on different sheets of tracing paper or we may want to work on one piece of paper, building up layers of…
Jonathan Armour led this meeting of the Unit. After several sessions of multiple poses and much movement of artists and model, this session was designed to enable a more calm study of the male body. Across three periods, the head/shoulders, the…
Richard Dickson led this meeting of the Unit. The starting point for this session was the work of Jenny Saville an artist whose critical observation of everyday people creates pieces that have flesh inscribed and displayed like a topographic map. The…
Neil Groom led this meeting of the Unit. The Beauty of Line. He introduced the session with these four worksheets: We examined varied examples of line use by different artists, both representational and abstract – and considered how the quality of…
David Jaramillo Klinkert led this session of the Unit. Cut-Outs. ‘The paper cut-out allows me to draw in the colour… Instead of drawing the outline and putting the colour inside it… I draw straight into the colour’, Matisse. Compositions consisting of…
Brian Dennis led this meeting of the Unit. Saya Bungkus – (Sai’ – uh Boong’- koos) “I am wrapped”. The word bungkus is used in colloquial Malay to mean tired, broken, or dead. The literal translation from Tamil is wrapped; the…
Jonathan Armour led this meeting of the Unit. Sometimes in life drawing, we try to capture the movement when a model is walking or performing in some way. I always struggle with this, and so want to use this session to examine it…
Richard Dickson led this meeting of the Unit. The group considered a variety of definitions of the term Reflection including the fable of Narcissus. To start disjointed reflections were used for the two short poses. Utilizing a length of mirror foil…
Brian Dennis led this meeting of the Unit. This session falls close to Jonathan’s birthday, so it seems appropriate to have a little celebration with a lot of art. Tonight’s exercises are based on a selection of well known creative games. Stylistically we can…
Andres Canovas led this meeting of the Unit. This IEU focuses on the representation of the human figure in relation to landscape, on how they affect one another, and on how they alter the final artwork. ‘Landscape with Figures’ is a…
