Life drawing summer school
9 July 2024 10.30am - 5.30pm10 July 2024 10.30am - 5.30pm11 July 2024 10.30am - 5.30pm12 July 2024 10.30am - 5.30pm13 July 2024 10.30am - 5.30pm
Dunard Fund Life Drawing Studio | Burlington House
£1,900. Includes all materials, light refreshments each day and drinks receptions throughout the week.
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Learn to draw the figure from life on this week-long course in the RA Schools' recently refurbished historic Dunard Fund Life Drawing Studio.
Explore traditional and contemporary life drawing, working in the Dunard Fund Life Drawing Room in the Royal Academy Schools, Britain's longest-established art school.
Like generations of RA Schools students, you will draw from the RA’s impressive collection of antique casts and statues. Working in chalk, pastel and ink, you will also work directly from a series of professional life models. The course will take you through the stages of anatomical drawing: weighting the body, observing movements and facial anatomy, and bringing emotion and life to your artwork.
You will be drawing in the Dunard Fund Life Drawing Studio, a historic space which was specifically designed for figure drawing. Sit in the same space where generations of RA Schools students finessed their drawing skills, from William Blake and J.M.W. Turner to Michael Armitage and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Artist Adele Wagstaff will help you to improve your figure drawing by sharing her expertise. By studying the anatomy of the human form, you will have a deeper understanding of the body’s interior, in turn, strengthening the skills needed for successful life drawing and portraiture.
Adele Wagstaff has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and the BP Portrait Award, and her work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery, Royal West of England Academy and the Canadian Portrait Academy. Following her graduation from the Slade School of Art, where she focused on working from the nude in sustained poses, her practice continues to look at the human figure and still life.
If the course is sold out, please contact public.programmes@royalacademy.org.uk to join our waiting list.
Minimum age 18. If you have any access requirements that you’d like to discuss, please contact public.programmes@royalacademy.org.uk.
£1,900. Includes all materials, light refreshments each day and drinks receptions throughout the week.
Friends of the RA book first
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