Friends and Academicians' Room members: life drawing – composition
Evening session
Tuesday 11 June 2019 6.15 - 9.15pm
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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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 composition.
In this life-drawing session, participants will look at how to place a figure on a page so it looks balanced in the space. Notions of spatial context will be considered, and how you will consider to best divide the pictorial space, including the use of an aperture as a composition aid. Poses will vary in length and orientation.
Whether you are a regular participant, would like to hone your skills or want to try life drawing for the first time, these 3 hour regular and immersive sessions – taught by expert teacher and practising artist Mick Kirkbride – are a wonderful way to experience life drawing in a supportive and friendly environment.
This event is open to Friends of the RA, RA250 Friends and RA250 Supporters, and members of the Academicians’ Room only.
About the course 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.
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, theory and business.