Monday Life Drawing

Join us for 2 hours of guided life drawing at The Lakeside Studios, in Thamesmead, Abbey Wood.

These are relaxed sessions for adult artists and beginners alike. There may be some artistic prompts which you can choose to challenge yourself with or simply concentrate on the poses in front of you.

This week we have the Thamesmead début of Lorenzo whose dynamic poses have been the subject of many an artist across London, so we're pleased he's finally able to work with us!

You're also welcome to share your drawings at the end of the session, but also you can choose not to. There's no pressure.

PRE- BOOKED TICKETS

£9 Standard

£7 Concessions

ON THE DOOR TICKETS

£10 Standard

£8 Concessions

VENUE:

This is a one-off venue space. Thamesmead Social is the cafe space on the lake front of the Lakeside Centre. 2 Bazalgette Way, SE2 9AN

How to get here?

BUSES

from Abbey Wood to Southmere Lake 229,244, 472, 301. Get off the bus and turn left off the flyover and carry on down the residential portion of Harrow Manor Way, to Bazalgette Way. Turn right under the underpass and the performing arts academy. Lakeside Centre is on the right surrounded by green fences. There's a circular concrete planter between Lakeside Centre and the white building site hoarding. Go down that passage towards the lake and the entrance to the cafe and Centre is the orange gate on the left.

CAR

There is free parking all along Bazalgette Way. SE2 9AN

Nonetheless, doors open at 6.30 for a 7pm start. I will be inside setting up/drinking tea. Please book to get my mobile phone number (and to know how many people are coming). Models are booked for 2 hours so please make sure you get here early to start promptly. Drawing starts on the dot at 7 and finishes at 9pm with a 15 minute tea/coffee/biscuit break after the first hour. We’ve got a few minutes of sharing of artworks - it’s always interesting to see other people’s version of the same model and take photos of the artwork created. The sharings are never compulsory, but often, I’ve found that the few that didn’t want to share initially, found something of their work to show, even just me, and that is a privilege.

Materials:

Please bring our preferred drawing materials and sketchbooks. There is good quality drawing paper for sale if you run out, and a limited amount of drawing boards to borrow for the session.

The timings are roughly as follows:

2 minute continuous movement

10 second poses (for 2 minutes)

3 x 2 minutes

3 x 5 minutes

7 minutes

10 minutes

15 minute break

5 minute warm up

Whatever we've got left of the hour until 9pm