Figure Drawing with Carl Jeppe

Hello,

Thank you so much to all those that came to my exhibition opening.

If you feel like you've missed out, please note:
Tomorrow morning at 10am there will be a walkabout at the Tuks gallery.

Anyone who wants to attend must please contact the gallery with the following email address:
[email protected]

Hi everyone, I’m excited to announce the details for my upcoming art exhibition. I am so excited and can’t wait to see you all there!

DATE: Saturday, 3 August 2024
TIME: Opening at 11 am
VENUE: University of Pretoria@ the Student Art Gallery

The exhibition will be opened by Gordon Froud.

Please RSVP by Wednesday, 31 July, this is a requirement of the university’s student gallery.

Link to RSVP:
https://forms.gle/5t7JkeFdUFDcNYpR8

( the link to RSVP is also posted on my Instagram profile bio)

Saturday 22nd of February was fabulous! Once again there were almost too many people for the space. But we managed to squeeze in. The weather was perfect, not too hot and not too cold, and this of course helps the model too! I suppose I always seem to go into spirals of ecstasy about our models but Ailyn has been posing for us for some years and she continues to get more beautiful and more serene every time! Please have a look at the drawings that we did of her. I've posted a couple of shots of our tool boxes and also of our lunchtime "banquet!" Everyone seems to go to so much trouble to bring along such tasty and healthy food for the table!
What a wonderful day we had!

My enormous apologies for not posting anything since May! Due to illness the last time we drew together was in November, and I didn't post then. But here we are in January 2020! What a fabulous time we had at the scout hall on Saturday .... there were 30 people in that space, all trying to find a little elbow room. It seems to work out that when there's been a break, everyone's drawing seems to sparkle that much more, or perhaps it's that there were so many people that we were so close to our neighbour and we could see what they were doing and so we'd better try harder!
Our model, Bernadette, was phenomenal! She got into some spectacular poses and held them beautifully!
I don't know of any other drawing group that goes for a whole six hours and it's incredible how much one can get done in that time.
It's so easy to be part of this unique experience .... all you do is send me your email address and I'll send you notices of when the next session will take place. Meanwhile, please scroll through the photos below to see what we've been up to. (I just shot photos randomly, so I'm not sure who did what, so please forgive me if I got it wrong)

Last Saturday (18th of May) was the firs time we'd drawn since it seemed like ages. But my goodness did we make up for it! We were lucky enough to have two amazing new models this weekend, Tracy on Saturday and Megan on Sunday. What is usually a worry turned out to be a blessing: the winter sun comes streaming into the room from the clerestory windows and seems to stay there all day. Each time you look at the model the sun seems to be in a different place! But if you're quick enough, you can catch it! Everything seemed to work perfectly. Have a look at our drawings ...... ( because I'm drawing myself, I'm sometimes not sure who did each work, so please forgive me if I got it wrong .... )

Mimi van der Merwe, one of Pretoria's best-loved artists and art instructors, came along and gave us a fascinating printmaking workshop. It was amazing! So many people attended and so many of them said we should do it again. And we will! Mimi and her assistant Adele worked like Trojans for the whole day. Please look at the photos, I apologize for not knowing who did what, it was just too much to keep track!

It's been a long long time since I posted any figure drawing photos, be cause we stopped our sessions rather early last year and although we had a busy drawing time in January, I only just got down to doing it properly last weekend. We had a wonderful model on Saturday 16th February, André is also an accomplished artist. And the people came in droves! It was wonderful! Please have a look at what we did with André!

And then along came Sunday 14th October! It had rained all night and it was soooo cold! I wondered if people would be brave enough to crawl out of bed on a day like this, let alone stand all day and draw in the freezing scout hall! I needn't have worried; they came in droves and we had a glorious day, with a breathtaking model, Lila, an artist and yoga instructor whose body is so lithe and athletic it was eye-popping! Please look at our drawings and like the ones the you fancy!

Saturday 13th was amazing! For the first time ever we had a guest lecturer, Heidi Beyers, and she taught us how to make a Figure sculpture. Our model, Reneé, was breathtaking! So many people came to try their hand at this new medium. After a demonstration of how to go about it, Heidi set us to work. First we made a lying figure and then a sitting one. We turned Reneé on her table from time to time so everyone could get a good Veiw. One thing’s for sure:?it’s way more difficult than we thought it would be!
After the class Heidi filled her car boot with all the little sculptures and crawled back to Midrand through torrential rain!
She’s going to fire them in her kiln and bring them back to the scout hall for us. What a day! It was awesome, and it sure won’t be the last time we’ll do something like that!! Look at the photos of our first figure sculptures!

It was a fabulous weekend! The hall was chock-full and the atmosphere was one of absolute focus and dedication. Gisela, the model was brilliant, and the thought that kept popping into my head was how gentle she seemed. I think that comes across in the drawings too!
One very frustrating thing happened though, my iPad on which I write these posts is so full that it just wouldn't take any photos on Sunday! And Sunday was magnificent too! Jessica-Lee posed for us and it was almost as though her purpose was to bring out the best in us! Pity you can't see the results! But please enjoy the fruits of Saturday's harvest....

The weekend of the 8th and 9th of September was wonderful, not in terms of weather (chilly) or numbers of artists (few) but in terms of our glorious models! On Saturday we drew Hannah and Dené on Sunday. I know I've so often said this, but it's often the personality and confidence of the model that makes the artists feel comfortable and creative! Well, the fruits of our labours are evidence that we all had a really great time!! Please take the trouble to have a look at our drawings below! Hope you enjoy them!