Last week, at lunchtime, Channel 4 was showing an art programme, which was half an hour of life drawing. I found out about it in time to record four out of the five programmes, so yesterday evening I sat and scribbled along with episode two.
It turns out that there’s a Flickr group where you can post your pictures. It seems as though some people have either re-watched or paused the programmes – unless they’re much faster at drawing than I am. I think that’s a good idea, as it gives you the chance to do a different kind of drawing than you could achieve in just thirty minutes.
Pausing the programme would definitely be a good idea for episode three. The model seemed to choose a particularly uncomfortable pose, and she couldn’t sit still! This is not an especially endearing quality in a life model.
Mind you, when I was at art college we had one model who invariably fell asleep if she was in anything even vaguely approaching a reclining pose. The great quandary at the end of the lesson was always how best to wake her up without touching her, and without frightening her to death by shouting.
I’d been thinking for a while about going to my local life drawing classes, just to get a bit of practice. It turns out that it’s on the same night as clog dancing, so I’m very glad that I have four of these programmes recorded.
Considering that I haven’t done any life drawing for five or six years, I think this little sketch came out okay.