5. THE BODY
Each Wednesday night for the last 11 years, I have run drop-in life drawing classes in my studio. A few weeks ago, I stood at my easel in the back corner of a busy class and listened to a retired pilot in a deep discussion with an A-level student about the merits of coloured sugar paper and half-sticks of soft pastel. For all their opposing life experiences, in those two hours of drawing they were entirely united by a shared purpose. They enjoyed the comradery of a shared struggle: an attempt to commit to paper a fleeting impression of a human figure.
Life drawing
