Evening Life Drawing | The Contemporary Portrait | Royal Drawing School
Explore expressive portraiture using ink and watercolour, embracing the unpredictability of wet media to capture life, energy and detail.
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Highlights
- 2 hours
- Online
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About this event
Experience a drawing class like no other.
These evening drawing sessions, broadcast live from the Royal Drawing School studios, are an opportunity for students to experience the dynamic and dramatic possibilities of the life room from home. Join students online from across the globe to draw from the model, theatrical sets, dancers, and more, with something new each week. Using a range of drawing practices, our expert tutors will guide you through a series of exercises over the course of each session.
In this two-hour online life drawing session, we will take inspiration from modern and contemporary ink and watercolour portrait artists including Edvard Munch, Marlene Dumas, Lucian Freud and Celia Paul.
Drawing from a model, tutor Rachel Mercer will introduce approaches to working with wet media, encouraging participants to embrace its unpredictability. Through brushwork, bleeding techniques and close observation, we’ll explore how to imbue portraits with energy and life while also attending to the delicacy and finer details of the face.
Suggested Materials:
- 3 sheets of A3 heavy cartridge paper (160gsm or heavier), or watercolour paper
- Water-based media of your choice (e.g. inks, watercolour, or gouache)
- Paper towel or tissue
- Brushes — one large, one small
- Water pot
Details
- You can book these sessions individually, or you can book the event series giving you access to all evening life drawing sessions with 25% off. Book the whole series here.
- Please note our online models will not pose nude. Models will be semi-clothed.
- All students will need a device that supports the latest version of Zoom
- Chat support available during the session
Share your work on social media with the hashtag #RDSLiveStudio
Tutor: Rachel Mercer
Featured image by Myrtle Glanville
Frequently asked questions
All you need is a computer, laptop or tablet that has a webcam and speaker, a connection to the internet and some space and materials for drawing comfortably. The courses are taught using Zoom, and the link can be accessed in the Eventbrite confirmation email after purchase.
Unfortunately not. Our online classes are taught live at scheduled times (GMT). The sessions are reliant on live interaction, much like being in a physical drawing workshop.
You will need to download Zoom onto your computer or laptop. The Zoom link is available in your Eventbrite ticket after the purchase. Please join the meeting promptly at the start time of your class.
No refund is available once the course has started. If cancelling before the beginning of the relevant term/class, a 50% refund can be arranged. The School is under no obligation to provide an additional class if a student misses one. We are unable to transfer courses to a following term.
We do. The School reserves the right to deny booking any student or to remove any student immediately from a course in line with the School's Safeguarding Policy. In the instance that a student is removed from a course a refund for remaining sessions will be issued.
In line with the School’s online safeguarding policy, students are not permitted to take pictures or record any online broadcast. This is to protect our community. Recordings of the sessions will not be made available to students after the live broadcast, even if a student misses a class.
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