London Drawing

LIFE DRAWING & COLOURED PASTELS WITH FRANK GAMBINO –
6 JUNE 2026
Colour, mark making and exciting dynamism- inject electric colour confidence into your life drawing – a great class for all abilities!

Join us for a great material based workshop with the brilliant figurative artist and London Drawing tutor Frank Gambino!

Create strong and impactful drawings in colour using chalk pastels and conte. Build your confidence in rendering a likeness in your drawing and really make the most of your materials- working with layering, application and lush colour combinations.
Over lock down Frank has developed his work into colour using pastels- and he will be sharing his techniques and insights in this new workshop full of demonstrations, tips, advice and one to one tuition.

A great class not to be missed!

Materials:
All basic materials will be provided as part of the class- so you can test it out and see if the medium is for you before investing in materials which can be expensive.
However- if you have your own pastels/ conte or would like to buy a set we have a materials list we can recommend- and we encourage you to bring your materials along! Pastels vary wildly in quality and temperament so this is a great class to get a sense of how materials work and how to get the best out of them.

Saturday 6 June 2026
10-4pm
£110
£65 full time students/ low income/ under 25
All basic materials included –

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Bringing your own materials is encouraged-
All basic materials included
Suitable for all levels of ability

Venue: Artizan St Library,
1 Artizan St
London
E1 7AF

A fabulous time as always at the for our Zurbaran themed Drawing Theatre event - always good vibes with lovely participants 🤩🤩 a few familiar faces including the lovely
Huge thanks you to our great models and - for a gorgeous sound track - for assisting and of course a big thank you to the NG for allowing us to take over their Social Space 🤩🤩🤩

ANATOMY FOUNDATIONS –
DRAWING THE BODY ONLINE COURSE WITH DOLPH VAN EDEN – JUNE 2026
We will be de-mystifying the A- word In this great dynamic online course!

No matter what your ability- understanding the anatomy of the human body will inject a dynamic, 3D depth into your life drawing – and can be a real revelation!

Join us for a special online Anatomy Foundations course with London Drawing tutor and life drawing anatomy specialist Dolph Van Eden

We will be taking a deep dive into life drawing and anatomy – working through structure and muscularity, learning to recognise and visualise the physicality of the body to build real depth into your drawing. Understanding of the anatomy of the body is the key to creating convincing and confident life drawing- and is invaluable regardless of your style. Depth of physical understanding will inject a 3D-ness to your drawing which will inform tone, volume and foreshortening.

We will work through all the main elements of the core anatomy of the body- and also how to incorporate this into your every day drawing with info on composition and rendering.

Packed full of demonstrations and information this is a great chance to develop your life drawing into something special!

Recordings will be included- released after each class and available to re-watch, pause, re-wind and re-cap as many times as you like for one month.

Tuesday evenings
2/9/16/23 June 2026
7-9pm UK time BST
£95
£65 Student / Under 25’s / Low income – please email [email protected] for more info and to arrange payment

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ANATOMY FOUNDATIONS – DRAWING THE BODY ONLINE COURSE WITH DOLPH VAN EDEN – JUNE 2026 – LONDON DRAWING No matter what your ability- understanding the anatomy of the human body will inject a dynamic, 3D depth into your life drawing – and can be a real revelation!

Artist inspiration today ahead of our PLASTICINE PORTRAIT session with via the extraordinary Franz Xaver Messerschmidt! Join us for some seriously entertaining explorative portrait sculpture 🤩
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PLASTICINE PORTRAIT – WITH WILFRID WOOD:
30 MAY 2026

Get to grips with portrait in a completely new way!

Join us for a day of undoing and in doing so, getting to the heart of portrait as we draw and sculpt, playing with materials and techniques. This day will build confidence in yourself and bring life and expression into your practice.

This is a great workshop to really challenge your grasp of portrait through drawing into 3D structure. We will be working with simple materials and processes – but the main premise of the workshop is rooted in principles of sculpture- with out the constraints of cumbersome materials like clay or bronze. The day will involve lots of drawing as well as as sculpting and will cut to the heart of portrait, allowing you to start to hone in on likeness through identifying the idiosyncrasies of the face.

Our workshops with Wilfrid are an exploration into fun experimentation where communication is as important as your medium.

This is a super way of building on your drawing skills – A great refresh and injection of new ideas and approaches-

Ideal for all levels of ability-

Saturday 30 May
10-4pm
£110
£60 Full time student/ low income concessions available – please email [email protected]
All materials included

Gold star to anyone who can guess the celebs and characters in these Plasticine Portraits by the great 🤩🤩🤩
Who said plasticine was just for kids? You too can get to the heart of portrait🤩:
PLASTICINE PORTRAIT – WITH WILFRID WOOD:
30 MAY
Get to grips with portrait in a completely new way!

Join us for a day of undoing and in doing so, getting to the heart of portrait as we draw and sculpt, playing with materials and techniques. This day will build confidence in yourself and bring life and expression into your practice.

This is a great workshop to really challenge your grasp of portrait through drawing into 3D structure. We will be working with simple materials and processes – but the main premise of the workshop is rooted in principles of sculpture- with out the constraints of cumbersome materials like clay or bronze. The day will involve lots of drawing as well as as sculpting and will cut to the heart of portrait, allowing you to start to hone in on likeness through identifying the idiosyncrasies of the face.

Our workshops with Wilfrid are an exploration into fun experimentation where communication is as important as your medium.

This is a super way of building on your drawing and sculpting skills – A great refresh and injection of new ideas and approaches

Ideal for all levels of ability-

Saturday 30 May
10-4pm
£110
All materials included
More info via link in our bio and here:
https://londondrawing.com/product/plasticine-portrait-with-wilfrid-wood-30-may-2026/

OBJECTS REIMAGINED:
STILL LIFE PAINTING & COLLAGE ONLINE COURSE
WITH CAT TAMS – JUNE 2026
Painting, abstraction, composition, collage-

Work with objects to create abstraction, lush layers and colour juxtapositions in this beautiful new online course with artist and London Drawing tutor Cat Tams

This online course explores everyday objects as a dynamic subject for observing, remembering and reimagining. We will use a playful combination of painting and collage to build still life landscapes of form and colour – building confidence in developing creative and effective compositions and colour palettes that bring your still life painting to life!

Cat will lead you through a series of processes which will unlock your creativity – and help you to bring depth and confidence to your painting. We will use the traditional subject of still life to build contemporary compositions and develop beautiful expansive pieces you will want to hang on your wall!

If you have taken a course with Cat before this will complement everything so far – and works perfectly as a stand-alone course if you are a newcomer – Recordings will be provided after each class and available for 6 weeks – extensions are available if you need it.

We hope you will join us!

Mondays in June

1/ 8/ 22/ 29 June 2026
7-9pm BST
PLEASE NOTE! There is a gap in the schedule on the 15 June- as Cat is unavailable for this date

£95
£60 Concessions ( under 25’s/ full time students / low income) please email [email protected] to arrange paymentRecordings included

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OBJECTS REIMAGINED: STILL LIFE PAINTING & COLLAGE WITH CAT TAMS – JUNE 2026 – LONDON DRAWING Work with objects to create abstraction, lush layers and colour juxtapositions in this beautiful new online course with artist and London Drawing tutor Cat Tams

NEW⚡️⚡️⚡️WATERCOLOUR PORTRAIT –
ONLINE COURSE WITH ARTIST MARK ENTWISLE – JULY 2026

We are hugely excited to working with the award winning artist for a new online course!

Mark is a prolific watercolourist- working in landscape, still life and figurative painting. His specialism is depicting light- and his portraits capture a luminosity in the sitter which is wonderfully delicate. Combining both control and the fluidity of this complex medium – Marks portraits are beautifully observed and expressive.

Mark is a fantastic tutor – with so much to offer with regard to technique and handling of colour and paint. This course is demonstration led- so you will work along with Mark as he demonstrates techniques to create a portrait from a photograph. We will begin the course with how to handle watercolour with demonstrations on colour mixing, water and brush techniques – and then move into building portraits, gradually moving through layering and masking- building space and colour to create luminosity in your painting.

The course is full of demonstrations with plenty of feedback and practical advice- a great opportunity to build you skills and confidence in watercolour.

Recordings will be provided after each session- so you can rewatch/ catch up/ pause/ recap and rewind – with access for two months after the course.

WATERCOLOUR PORTRAIT – ONLINE COURSE WITH ARTIST MARK ENTWISLE

Mondays 6/ 13/ 20/ 27 July 2026
7-9pm BST
£110 Recordings included
MORE INFO & BOOKING HERE & VIA LINK IN BIO:
https://londondrawing.com/product/watercolour-portrait-online-course-with-artist-mark-entwisle-july-2026/