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Friends and Academicians’ Room members life drawing: marks and mark making – energising tone
Evening session
Tuesday 27 March 2018 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.
Friends of the RA book first
Terms and conditions
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. This month's session concentrates on marks and mark making.
The exercises during this session will encourage students to explore a wider vocabulary of mark to energise their drawings. Dots, manic marks and scribbles will be used to help express positive and negative space as an overall integrated whole in which qualities of more-or-less light create boundaries of definition. Poses will vary from short to more sustained.
To book, please call 020 7300 8090. Friends of the RA can also book online.
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, business and trade. Read more about courses and classes
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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.
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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.