Friends and Academicians’ Room members life drawing: finding the balance
Evening session
Monday 13 March 2017 6.15 - 9pm
The Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
£50. Includes a drinks reception and all practical materials. Friends and Academicians’ Room members only.
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An exclusive opportunity to enjoy monthly life drawing sessions for Friends and Academicians' Room members in the Sir 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 interaction of two figures.
A figure must look rooted and balanced if it is to have a convincing sense of mass and weight. Using a series of short and more sustained poses, this class will explore systems to express a feeling of Contrapposto – counter posing one part of the body against another to maintain balance. Determining the line of balance in a drawing of the standing figure will be the chief issue under investigation.
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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.
Book your tickets
Tickets are £50 and include a drinks reception and all practical materials.
To book, call 020 7300 8090. Friends of the RA can also book online using the link below.