Flesh and form: Life drawing with Rubens
Enrol
| Standard: | £40 |
| Concessions: | £36 |
Please book a ticket to attend this course which will take place in the Roden Centre for Creative Learning.
Tickets include entry to the National Gallery. Please arrive in good time to access the building and find the event.
Bookings close 10 minutes before the event begins.
Concessions are for full-time students, jobseekers, and disabled adults.
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About
Working from a live model, explore how Peter Paul Rubens created exuberant, dynamic visions of the human body.
In this Friday evening life drawing session, focus on movement, flesh and bodily presence. Take inspiration from Rubens’ powerful figure studies and paintings to explore how weight, tension and rhythm are conveyed through the body, and how your drawings can express softness, strength and motion.
Through a series of timed poses and longer studies, experiment with mark-making, line and tonal emphasis to capture energy that defines Rubens’s approach to the figure. Short periods of close looking in the Gallery will inform studio practice, encouraging you to translate art-historical observation into confident, expressive drawing.
This session is suitable for artists of all levels. All materials are provided, and your works are yours to take home. Handout with extra resources will be provided in advance of the session.
Your tutor
Joanna Conybeare is an artist and Gallery Educator at the National Gallery. She has led multiple adult courses and has worked in Primary and Secondary schools in London and the south coast as a teacher and subject lead for Art and Design. In her own artistic practice, she uses oil paint, clay, porcelain and terracotta to explore the figure, enjoying the immediacy of the material that enables her to ‘draw’ two and three-dimensionally.