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Life drawing: Playing with the unfinished

Online session

Join us for a free online life drawing class that will enhance your skills, while playing with what makes a ‘finished’ drawing
Date
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Time
6.30 - 7.30 pm BST
Available online only
Accompanied by Stagetext

About

Taking inspiration from April's 'Picture of the month' – Michelangelo’s unfinished painting, ‘The Entombment’  join us to play with the concept of 'finish'. 

We will work directly from life models as we explore the human body. What sense of freedom and what possibilities can we create when we release ourselves from focusing on making a perfectly finished drawing?  

Artist Emyr Williams will lead you through a series of exercises in this online session to widen your understanding of finished art, while developing your figure drawing skills and creativity. 

All you will need for this session is a pencil, paper, and rubber.  

This session will be accompanied by live speech-to-text transcription supported by Stagetext.

Image: Detail from Michelangelo, 'The Entombment (or Christ being carried to his Tomb)', about 1500-1

Your tutor

Emyr Williams is an abstract painter who has exhibited in the UK, Europe and North America. His work has won awards and is held in many public, corporate and private collections worldwide. He has taught in the UK, France, USA, and Asia, including numerous courses at the Royal Academy. Emyr has written about art for Abstract Critical, Instant Loveland, Abcrit and the Royal Academy Magazine. 

Creative sessions

Life drawing: Playing with the unfinished

Online session

Join us for a free online life drawing class that will enhance your skills, while playing with what makes a ‘finished’ drawing
Date
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Time
6.30 - 7.30 pm BST
Available online only
Accompanied by Stagetext

Online tickets

Free

Please book a ticket to access this online workshop, hosted on Vimeo.  

You will receive an E-ticket with instructions on how to access your online events, films and resources via your National Gallery account.  

Please note, only one ticket can be booked per account. Bookings close 10 minutes before the event.