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Life Study Sessions

A tutor will normally start the sessions with 2 or 3 short 5 minute posses to encourage the artists to sketch their first impressions quickly and loosely.

After this the pose will be set accordingly to the group’s time pattern. This varies between 20 minutes to get a variety of movement and the whole 2 – 4 hour session to concentrate on detail. Some classes are known to hold the same pose for a number of sessions, the model returning to charcoal marked positions.

The model is naked to enable the artists to gain experience of sketching the human body without the mystic caused by clothing. For the artists it is an objective, life study and not an erotic exercise. Clothing can hide the movement of the skin and muscle. Even the stillest of life models moves as they breathe and slumps slightly as they relax into the pose.

The tutor will encourage artist to:

- “look” more critically,
- more often,
- measure each line against the figure and the sketch,
- loosen up drawing skills.

Regular practise encourages a knowledge of human figure, body tone and movement useful in figurative painting and a keen eye for sketching figure, landscape and still life outside of the Life Study sessions.

The Life Study Acetate Print Nude
is by Christine Wakelin who is training in Fine Art and Science at Kings Lynn Art College.
To make the acetate print the artists uses photography and print making techniques and each print is a one off original.
The photograph is printed onto acetate. The acetate is then use to hand print onto embossed on heavy bond paper. Each print will be totally different to the others.

Catalogue
Drawings and Collectors Items

Ralph Todd - NEWLYN SCHOOL (1856-1932)

Untitled, Original charcoal study, c.1918, Approx.15x11 inches 38 x 28 cm. Unframed. Almost certainly a preparatory sketch for a watercolour.

Drawn on cream wove paper, tack holes at corners where pinned up, traces of foxing but generally in excellent condition.

Vanessa Bell - Bloomsbury Set, Charleston.

Pencil study with very light watercolour wash

£650

Ralph Todd (1856-1932) was a genre and landscape painter and member of the Newlyn School. He studied in Belgium, Holland and France before meeting Stanhope Forbes in Brittany in 1882. He moved to Newlyn in Cornwall the following year. He worked mainly in watercolours and exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. Much of his later life was spent at Helston in Cornwall.

Provenance: A. R. Middleton Todd, the artist's son, thence by descent.

Not for sale

JOHN BELLANY

DARK LANDSCAPE 2000

Five colour screen print on Moulin Du Gue 270gm, printed by Ian Wilkinson, image 38.5 x 43cm
A depiction of the sea view of the coast of Eyemouth Harbour, where hundreds of fishermen's lives were lost in a terrible storm

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JAD Davies, St Ives Group artist

Portrait of St Ives sculptor Barbara Tribe

Size: 28 x 38 cm + mount contact Helen Mould

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JOHN BELLANY

Helmsdale Wreck 2000

Six colour screen print on Moulin Du Gue 270gm, printed by Ian Wilkinson, image 38.5 x 43cm.

Small edition of 34 signed and numbered by John Bellany 21/34 order

This is one of a a number of drawings and paintings Bellany produced when he was in Addenbrook's Hospital recuperating from a liver transplant.

 

JOHN BELLANY

WOMAN of the NORTH SEA

Five colour screen print on Moulin Du Gue 270gm, printed by Kip Gresham studio. , £750

Sign by John Bellany and marked GSL 1

 

MATTHEW HILTON, OBE - BETWEEN the SHADES 1996

Ten colour screen-print on T H Saunders 300gm, printed by Ian Wilkinson & Matt Evans; paper 54 x 48cm - image 35.5 x 22.5cm £ order

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ANTHONY GREEN - RESURRECTION - The CLOCK;

MARIE MADELEINE! 2000;

27 colour screenprint on Somerset Textured 300gm, printed by Kip Gresham; paper 75.5 x 89cm - image 56 x 73cm

Anthony Green is still printing this image but now it is in the impersonal glicee form with much higher print run.  order £

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CHARLOTTE CORNISH - THEN and NOW 1 (circles) (2001);

9 colour screen-print on Velum Arches 300gm, printed by Ian & Jan Wilkinson, 70 x 120cm   This edition number:                                                £order

Barcelona - Print by Kip Gresham


Pastel Female Life Study Nude Drawing,
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Kibog Park, RA,
Male life study, 24 x 36" approx.¸ Framed under glass.

Mixed media individual mono print  £300 order

Kibog Park, RA,
Male life study 2, Mixed media individual
mono print 24 x 36" approx.¸ Framed under glass. £300 order

Christine Wakelin
The Life Study Mono Acetate Print Nude  Framed
£145  order

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