Life Drawing But Not As We Know It...

A new Life Drawing course entitled ‘Drawing Life’ will be coming to Brooks Studios in Worthing, commencing 19th September and continuing over six weeks every Tuesday evening. The sessions are designed to examine the dynamics involved in this traditional discipline from the point of view of process rather than product. Tutor Fizz Fieldgrass believes we are dealing with more than meets the eye in quite the literal sense and aims to introduce students to a spectrum of issues from the basic mechanics of observation to the aesthetics of personal expression. It is this last that involves an exploration of the artist relating to the model via an interpretation of emotive responses that really brings home the idea of the act of figure drawing being one of celebrating the living form - hence the course title. Once beyond the objective recording of the figure, a student should be willing to investigate his or her personal response to what the figure may represent – strength, grace, the poetry found in contour or line and so on. Such topics to be covered will be: ‘training’ one’s eye – the observing and recording via proportion, perspective, etc; connecting the head’s eye with the mind’s eye - being conscious of that connection – Giacometti’s ‘residue of vision’; engaging the aesthetics of the life drawing act - becoming aware of individual response leading to personal interpretation. The course is designed to appeal to a broad spectrum of students from the novice wishing to benefit from introducing him/herself to this staple of art practice to the keen amateur who is seeking to develop a more intensive approach. To request more details and register for the course, you can call Fizz on: 01903 537446 or mail him at: mail4fizz@googlemail.com ‘Drawing Life’: Tuesday 19th September to Tuesday 24th October (8pm – 10pm) at Brooks Studios, Heene Road, Worthing, BN1 3SD. (Brooks Studios is a self-contained purpose-built studio and workshop run by practising artists Brenda Brooks and Jane Denman).