Reconfigure: Long Pose Life Drawing

Three glorious hours to settle into drawing one single pose (with a few warm-ups at the start). 360 views of the model in a gorgeous, spacious room, dreamy tunes and warm company.

I’ve decided to run long pose sessions in the beautiful Main Hall at Summerhall on every 2nd Sunday of the month. “Long” in this case means three hours (which any model will tell you is long enough!). We will begin with 15 minutes of short warm-up poses before settling down for the long haul. I imagine this is for you more seasoned artists but I will be on hand for any advice and second opinions you’d like as you sketch.

We will provide tables, chairs and A3 boards; you are welcome to bring any other equipment with you. We also supply various drawing paraphernalia to borrow, and you can buy A3 paper, pencils and sharpeners from us, as well as lovely sketchbooks of different sizes. Do bring your favourite tools if you have them – but it’s equally fine to turn up with nothing at all.

These sessions will be occasionally themed, if the ideas and props are flowing. I’ll advertise this on the Instagram. And I’ll be making a selection of dreamy tunes to help plonk you all into the zone.

£15/£12/£7.50. I trust you to assess your own incomes. For now, I’ll be making this pre-book only, so I can put the correct number of tables out. We’ll start at 10am, ‘doors’ from 9.45am.

Looking forward to welcoming you into this beautiful, beautiful space.
xx Topaz and co