WORKING FROM LIFE | UNTUTORED
Remove the pressure of “getting it right” and instead sharpen your ability to observe proportion, gesture, and presence in real time. With various options available each week, you can work without instruction in a supportive environment, embracing mistakes as data and developing a personal visual language free from academic formulas.
Practising the figure/portrait hones your ability to simplify complex forms, detect subtle relationships, and work quickly from life, building the visual memory and confidence essential for all artistic growth.
Over time, these untutored sessions become the most valuable part of your artistic routine, building confidence and fluency that no amount of theory can replace.
SESSION OPTIONS;
Regular art practice is essential not for producing masterpieces, but for training your eye to see clearly and your hand to respond honestly. At the Schoolhouse for Art, weekly opportunities to practise through a range of drawing-from-life classes; both portraiture & figurative in a variety of class structures for you to choose from.
WEDNESDAYS 10am–2pm: for drawing or painting the nude figure in single, long pose
A professional model (female/male Nude) will pose in a single long pose for the entire session.
THURSDAYS 10am–2pm: for drawing or painting the nude figure in variety of short poses
A professional model (female/male Nude) will pose in a variety of short and longer poses.
FRIDAY 10am–2pm: for drawing or painting the portrait in single, long pose
A sitter (female/male clothed) will pose in a single long pose for the entire session.
NOTES
Spaces are prioritised for block bookings.
Single classes be booked but are not drop-in and must be pre-booked (if available).
Spaces are limited. If the session you are looking for is full, please let us know by emailing info@schoolhouseforart.com
If this course is fully booked or not currently scheduled, go ahead add your name to the waiting list HERE.
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Consider this your artistic exercise. Working from life with a model will help you make quick decisions, remove fear of failure, build muscle memory & coordination.
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Bring along your preferred drawing & painting materials and surfaces.
Odourless solvents only please
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”