Overview
Join this Digital Studio session, led by tutor David Gardner, exploring how the image of the musician can evoke sound, rhythm, emotion and narrative within drawing.
We will look at the iconography of the musician as muse throughout art history and contemporary picture making — from depictions of Orpheus on ancient Greek pottery to Franz Gertsch’s hyperreal paintings of Patti Smith in the 1970s, from Caravaggio’s 'The Musicians' to Peter Doig’s recent 'House of Music exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
Working from a live model posed with a stringed instrument under colourful theatrical lighting, we will explore how gesture, colour and composition can suggest the atmosphere of musical performance.
Each Digital Studio session makes use of the School's multi-camera digital studio to create drawing-from-observation opportunities that are only possible online. Tutors offer guidance throughout to help students approach different poses and get the most out of each session.
Please note: online models will not pose nude. Models in this series will be semi-clothed.
Our classes are not recorded and made available to watch later.
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