Life Drawing & Anatomy

Service Description

Working from the nude model is a core activity within art practice and during this course you will be encouraged to develop your understanding of the human form, maintaining throughout a creative and personal approach. You will be working in charcoal. This class will enable you to: - Work with charcoal - Understand proportion, body mass and structure - Investigate new ways of looking at and understanding the human figure - Take a personal and confident approach to drawing Materials List (Please bring the following each week) - Willow charcoal thin and medium - Putty rubber (Daler Rowney highly recommend) - Masking tape - Recycled paper/sugar paper A1 David Caldwell was born in Helensburgh in the West of Scotland in 1977. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1994-98) and the Royal Drawing School (2003-05). He has won several awards and residencies including the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Bulldog Bursary, the Founder’s Purchase Prize at the ING Discerning Eye (adjudged by the late Brian Sewell), and the Smallwood Architects Prize at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2019. He has twice been short-listed for the BP Portrait Awards, where in 2013 he displayed 77 miniature portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. He has recently been short-listed for various other major awards including the Seven Investments Management ‘Conversations’ Prize, the Ruth Borchard Self-portrait Prize, the Threadneedle Figurative Art Prize, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Award and the W. Gordon Smith Award. David lives and works as an artist and portrait painter in Glasgow. David paints and draws from life. His work reflects his immediate environment and features the people, landscapes and things that he directly engages with. David strives to make something permanent of the fleeting, to build layers of time and looking into one distilled image. Classes run out of the new large north facing room street level, front door, 13 Great King Street. We accept students of age 18+ This class is open to yearly booking commencing every September, and also for single terms. For the September start date, priority is given to those wanting to commit for the whole year. If there is a space in December or March for January and or April start dates, you are very welcome to sign up for a single term. Exceptions will always be considered should a student already be aware they cannot attend the full year at the start of the year.