Life Drawing Llantwit Major

08/10/2026

This week's sequential gesture drawing involved Matthew, our life model, transitioning from a crouched half-kneeling position to an extended stand (with a small twist) — think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2!

See work from this session at:
https://www.facebook.com/oriellifedrawingllantwitmajor

Thanks to all our artists for coming and making another enjoyable session, and to Matthew for his poses and acting...
..“I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle!” 🙂
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01/10/2026

Our artists were challenged by three sequential flash poses after our customary warm-up — our life model posed for 2 minutes, moved slowly to a second position, held this for 2 minutes, then gradually transitioned to a final 2 minute pose. The sequence was based on the action of walking and picking an object from the floor.

As usual, our artists stepped up and responded so positively to the exercise, even those who haven't been coming for long (a first session for one!).

Thanks to Photoulla for modelling for us at short notice after our scheduled model couldn't make it. Much appreciated, especially after she'd already done a full day life modelling in Bridgend!

See work from this session at:
https://www.facebook.com/oriellifedrawingllantwitmajor
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24/09/2026

We're back!

Our weekly life drawing sessions began again last night with the usual blend of rapid and longer poses. We tackled some flash poses of 30 seconds to a minute long and asked some questions, including:
• Can I use the allotted time more effectively, perhaps looking and drawing simultaneously?
• What information do we need to include to give a viewer all that they require for them to see a representation of the figure before us?
• Are there quicker, more gestural, marks that could help us resolve our drawings in a shorter time?

See work from this session at:
https://www.facebook.com/oriellifedrawingllantwitmajor

Thanks to everyone for coming and to Ben, our life model for the evening.
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28/08/2026

Our third and final summer session.

Laura, our life model for the evening, chose to offer a collection of poses which portrayed different emotions — anger, fear, grief and pain. We had some very different and intriguing poses, and I loved how eager Laura was to explore some very tricky positions.

The resulting drawings are really expressive!
See some of these at:
https://www.facebook.com/oriellifedrawingllantwitmajor

Thanks again to Laura and to everyone who came and supported these sessions.

Our weekly sessions return on 23 September (see advert on this page).
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13/08/2026

Our second session of the summer and we had ten poses of between 2 and 35 minutes, ably held by Tom our life model for the evening.

Thanks to everyone for coming, to Tom for some great poses, and for all the encouraging feedback.

See work from this session at:
https://www.facebook.com/oriellifedrawingllantwitmajor

Our next session’s in a fortnight’s time.

11/08/2026

30/07/2026

After a short break, we started our mini-block of summer sessions last night with our life model bringing in one of her hammocks.

Thanks so much for this Photoulla, it allowed for some really creative and interesting poses — the feedback has been great! Many thanks to all who came along.

See work from this session at:
https://www.facebook.com/oriellifedrawingllantwitmajor

23/07/2026

Spent a few hours at National Museum Cardiff today and just wanted to share a pic of Barry Flanagan's anthropomorphic 'Small Nijinsky Hare' on here.

Low on detail but packed full of movement and energy, it's a really great little bronze work. Definitely worth a look if you're there.

[I made one museum staff member a little nervous when I went to take this shot and then found that the Degas bronze was in the way. I was a bit too close for her liking, I think!]

Life Drawing Summer Sessions start next Wednesday!

02/07/2026

We welcomed much cooler conditions for our last session of the block, one that presented the usual mix of rapid and longer poses plus a memory drawing exercise.

Many thanks to all who came last night and to our life model, Szaria, for her varied poses and input.

See drawings from this session at:
https://www.facebook.com/oriellifedrawingllantwitmajor

There’ll be a few sessions over the summer (see advert for dates) before we restart the weekly classes again towards the end of September.

Have a great summer, everyone!

28/06/2026

Challenging poses in challenging conditions — thank you to all who braved the extreme weather to draw for a couple of hours and to our life model, Matthew, for his valiant efforts.

See drawings from this session at:
https://www.facebook.com/oriellifedrawingllantwitmajor