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Laurie

Tue, 28 April, 7-9pm (GMT)

Organise your creative calendar

Here are our next four models. Remember, sometimes they need to cancel, so always check the website for an up-to-date schedule. We do not send emails for model changes.

5 May

12 May

19 May

26 May

Here are the respective Instagram profiles if you want to investigate before hand: Laurie @laureinlines, Adrian @modbodadrian, Paula @lifemodelpau, Megan @megirama_art and Guadi @guadi.mon.

Art(icles) by art(ists)

Recently we approached a few the people in our life drawing community, and asked them to write about something that matters to them. The depth of subjects and creative voices inpired me to capture and share them on a blog, and promote them as teaser in the newsletter.

Hand made paper

by Bruce Thomas - 1633 words (8 min read)

Are you couragous enough to destroy your work? I wasn't, but that was the prerequiste of learning the process of papermaking. A sustainable way to spring clean your artworks into a new and personal blank page, embeded with ghosts of old drawings.

If you draw often (like me) you will be confronted by the amount of used paper you have at home. Now I do reuse it, just by flipping it over, or folding large sheets into smaller booklets. But when all sides are used, and none are particularly good, what do you do with it? Each page is actually a store of your time. Right? Some pages only contain a gestural pose of maybe one of two minutes. Other pages may have twenty minutes of your life etched on them. So a single drawing session is approximately two hours manifest as fifteen pages. I draw at least once a week, so in a single year the pile stands 780 pages high ... (continue reading)

In-person £12.50

A2 recycled paper, black card, charcoal, chalk, pencils, pens, erasers, sharpeners, portable easels, boards, and paper clips

International timetable

If you are attending from abroad here is a list of start times that correspond to the London GMT of 7:00 PM. If your city is not listed below, then visit greenwichmeantime.com.