Life-drawing August 2025
Detail of one of the drawings from the recent life-drawing session
: “Yesterday I did my first life-drawing session since March this year. …”
Blogposts tagged as “Life Models”
Life Model Rates 2025
Life-drawing 1 March 2024, by the author. Sanguine Pencil on Hahnemühle Nostalgie paper.
: “I haven’t re-evaluated the rates I pay to the life models I work with since 2018, so I decided that it’s about time I did! …”
Moving to Hastings
: “It’s goodbye to living in my Hove garret amongst the rooftops, chimneys, and crows because last week I signed the tenancy agreement for a new flat in Hastings, and I’m moving in there this…”
The drawing is not the model: gender identity in life-drawing
Life-drawing from November 2022, pastel on black paper. Model’s pronouns: they/them.
: “I’ve been talking to my regular life-models about gender, particularly with the models who use they/them pronouns (who may be non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, or something else) and whether the…”
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Artwork for all
One of the Life Drawings available from a drawing session in March 2023
: “I’ve decided to make three of my recent life-drawings, including the one illustrating this blog post, available to buy - you can find them on the new “Original Drawings” section of my online…”
Life-Drawing September 2022
Life-drawing, 1 hour pose (pencil)
: “My plan to re-introduce regular life-drawing into my artistic practice is still going ahead, even though it’s not as frequent as I’d hoped yet. Some of that is the logistics of finding and booking…”
A Study for The Goblin Market
A pencil study for The Goblin Market by the author
: “For a couple of years I’ve had an idea at the back of my mind to do a drawing based on Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem Goblin Market as part of my Acid Renaissance series. …”
Artistic Practice under Lockdown
Life-drawings by the author
: “As the third national lockdown in England doesn’t look like it will be a short one, I’ve been making some plans on how to continue my artistic practice under the restrictions. …”
Life-drawing during Covid: some thoughts
Life drawing by the author
: “I’ve been trying to figure out the legality (and ethical conundrums) of restarting my life-drawing practice under the revised “3 Tier” system that is due to come into force in England on…”
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Life-drawings and Myth and Masks
: “eBay Experiment …”
The Keeper of the Archives, Dream Eaters, and Dryads
The Keeper of the Archives, a Dream Eater, and a Dryad
: “Being one of a (much overdue) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. …”
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Acid Renaissance updates and work-in-progress
Detail from an unpublished shot from the Guardian of the Woodland Shadows photoshoot
: “As per last week’s post, this post is a series of minor updates - a format I’m experimenting with, more like a newsletter with various bits and pieces. …”
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Some updates: refuturing, life-drawing, etc
Life drawing by the author
: “This post is a series of minor updates as I’m trying to make best use of my new work-life regime (3-days a week doing my day-job, 2 days dedicated to artwork, and a 2 day weekend of relaxing,…”
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Life Model Rates 2018
Drawings by the author
: “As the new year approaches I decided it was time to review the rates I pay life models again. …”
A Post about Life Models (update)
Life drawing (detail) by the author
: “As I approach my next art project I’ve just reviewed the amounts I pay people who model for my photography or drawing from the rates I discussed in this earlier post. …”
A Post about Life Models
Life Drawing by the authorn, 2010
: “When I was an art student, and in the years shortly after finishing art school, I was lucky enough to have a number of friends who were happy to life model for me for free, just as well as I was…”
Many Ideas and Limited Time
: “I can’t decide whether to keep pursuing the “mask” arc with my photography, or develop it into something else. …”