Can’t believe I finally got to go to a local life-drawing class last night and a brilliant one at that!
Held in Garth Olwg Lifelong Learning Centre in Church Village, nr Pontypridd it was a full class with people ranging from 16 to 60 and our model Pip gave us wonderful poses.
Here are my first attempts.
I used a graphite pencil on fine grain paper. I sat with my pad balanced on my lap for the first hour. Afterwards I balanced my pad on my knees and had it resting at the top on the back of a chair placed in front of me.
Finally I just felt that I would be better able to judge proportions and angles if I stood at a traditional easel.
It was really hard work - focussing so intently on a subject. I loved the opportunity to draw freely and without tuition. Tracey Rees who organises the events came around periodically just to ask if we were doing OK and the atmosphere was relaxed with music playing and the model posing in the middle of a circle. Sometimes she stood, sat, lay on blankets and sat on a stool. Such a varied selection - it was enthralling.
Can’t wait for next week.
