Friends and Academicians' Room members life drawing: making light visible
Evening session
Tuesday 25 September 2018 6.15 - 9.15pm
The Sir Hugh Casson Room, 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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Terms and conditions
An exclusive opportunity for Friends and Academicians' Room members to enjoy monthly life-drawing sessions in the Sir Hugh Casson Room, designed to be both rewarding and fun. This month's session concentrates on light and shade.
This session will focus on developing strategies to express light and shade. Using varying lengths of pose, participants will be encouraged to shed any habitual solutions they may have, seeking instead to make marks with an overall looseness and energy. Strong directional light will be used to heighten drama and create strong tonal contrast.
Our courses and classes programme
Our varied programme of short courses and classes provides an opportunity to explore subjects ranging from life drawing to the history of exhibitions and arts management, led by expert tutors and practising artists. These courses introduce traditional art-making processes, as well as perspectives on art history, and business.
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, most recently as drawing tutor on a range of post-graduate specialisms at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). For the past two years he has led a series of life-drawing sessions for Friends of the RA based in the Keeper’s House.
Mick’s own paintings are essentially suppositions: they seek to make visible narratives that exist in the mind’s eye. His inventions are always underpinned by observational drawing, with the human figure as the key structural motif.