Friends and Academicians’ Room members life drawing: the figure in context
Evening session
Monday 28 November 2016 6 - 9pm
Sir Hugh Casson Room, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts
£50, includes a drinks reception and all practical materials
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An exclusive opportunity to enjoy monthly life drawing sessions for Friends and Academicians' Room Members in the Hugh Casson Room, designed to be both rewarding and fun. These practical sessions provide expert-led tuition in a social and welcoming environment. This month's session concentrates on the figure in context.
This sesssion explores the relationship between the figure and its environment. The model will form an integral part of an assemblage of curvilinear, rectilinear and irregular shapes. One will become an extension of the other, as they form an interdependent whole.
Notions of editing, selectivity and pictorial balance will be explored using an aperture or view finder. The chief aim is to see the subject as pure shape rather than relying on customary perception regarding the model's appearance.
The Royal Academy provides a varied programme of practical courses, classes and academic programmes, including drawing, which provides the foundation for all other techniques and media, including painting, sculpture and printmaking. Upcoming courses include Drawing Texture, Drawing & Music and Anatomical Drawing. See our full programme of courses and classes.
About the Tutor
Mick Kirkbride
Painter and teacher Mick Kirkbride is a graduate of the Royal Academy Schools. For many years he was Senior Lecturer in Visual Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts. In 2004 he was elected a member of The New English Art Club, becoming the curator of its education programme in 2014. Mick has taught drawing at all levels, more recently as drawing tutor on a range of post-graduate specialisms at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Over the past two years he has tutored a series of life drawing sessions for friends of the RA based in the Keeper's House. Mick's paintings are essentially suppositions, they seek to make visible narratives that exist in the mind's eye. The idiosyncrasy of invention underpinned with observational drawing is the primary tool, with the human figure as the dominant structural motif.
Our courses and classes programme
Our programme of short courses and classes offers the opportunity to explore a range of subjects, led by expert tutors and practising artists.