August Drawing Club: Embodied Portrait Drawing

August drawing club is an opportunity to form connections with local artists, bonding over a shared love of drawing, however big or small a place it has in your life. The ethos is to create a supportive environment for all artists who are interested in learning how to look and draw from life, exploring new techniques and subject matter.

What to Expect:

Saturday 22nd August: Embodied portrait drawing
In this session of ‘drawing club’, we will draw from a clothed model. We will explore pattern, texture and expressiveness as well as honing our skills of looking, measuring and finding shapes within what we see.
We will consider the significance of a drawing as an embodied act; we are in the space as well as the model. How do we get this across? How can we show our embodied selves within a drawing which merely shows what we see?

What you’ll take home:

Numerous explorative drawings in which you will have explored and grown as an artist, able to transfer your new skills into whatever you choose to draw next. 

Facilitator:

Structured sessions led by artist Ruby Bradshaw.

Ruby is a long-term student of drawing, having studied at Arts University Plymouth and the Royal Drawing School. She is passionate about good quality, inclusive arts education, and enjoys teaching as part of her freelance practice. She is a studio holder at Devonport Guildhall.