Friday 13 July 2018

Friday 13th July: Life Drawing with Julie Verhoeven







Thanks to Giorgio Armani and The Gentlewoman Magazine I got to experience an evening of life-drawing with the genius artist Julie Verhoeven.  I imagine that it's only the fine-art students of The Royal College and Central St.Martins who have access to this privilege so I was chuffed to bits at the opportunity.  The class assembled at the Georgio Armani store in Chelsea and got into a neon lit mini-bus for a road trip to the Royal Academy for the session.  Here we were greeted with our very own easel, paper and bundle of artists materials ready for action!  Julie led us through exercises such as quick one minute sketches or altering your pencil grip by sellotaping it to the long handle of a paintbrush!  After experimenting with these different techniques we then had two longer poses to chose our own style of mark-making and flair for capturing the models - including a star turn by musician Anna Calvi.  Its been a good twelve years since I attempted life drawing at art school so I was pretty useless (see top) but here is one of Anna Leader's colourful free-flow pages. 

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