27th Feb: #OnlineLifeDrawing with Iris

Please join us via Zoom for 2 hours of relaxing life drawing from the comfort of your own home or studio. Starting at 7pm BST (2pm EST)

This week we are joined by photographic and life model Iris Suarez, otherwise known as Sweet Mandragora on Instagram. Iris was born in Spain on the Cantabrian coast and came to Scotland to further her studies in Tourism and fell in love with Edinburgh. She is a full time life and photographic model working often with the Life Modelling community in Edinburgh. She will be Zoomingin from there while I will be hosting from Thamesmead Life Drawing HQ in London.

The tickets can be bought below:

50% of the profits of the session is shared with the model.

The session will start promptly at 7pm and finish formally around 9.00 with an informal sharing session afterwards for those that want to stay on. Please arrive about 15 minutes earlier to ensure that your Zoom is working and that you can hear the instructions.

It’s 2 hours of poses of different lengths:

10 second dash for 2 minutes

3 x 2 minute warm up poses,

1 x 5 minute poses

1 x 10 minutes poses

1 x 15 minute poses.

1 x longish pose of whatever is left on the clock.

BREAK 10 minutes. Optional unmute and connect with the other participants

2 x 2 minute poses.

15 minute full length pose

Final pose (whatever is left on the clock)

This is a safe space for both yourself as an artist but especially for the model so please STRICTLY NOT SCREENSHOTS or recording of the session . Anyone found making a recording of the session will be put into the Waiting Room. Please

Please note: We will start the drawing on time so the Zoom will be open 15 minutes before the start of the session. The times around the world that the session will start drawing is

7pm UK

8pm Berlin

2pm New York

11am Los Angeles

Please be ready on Zoom and introduce yourself and settle in.

Afterwards

There is an optional sharing of your work after the session, and talk about what you do and what you tried with each one, which one was pleasurable to do, which pose was a challenge. Not an art critique per se (I remember them being horrendous at Art School) but just a option to share your work and for us to witness.