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Contemporary, informal and affordable. Life Drawing at The Exhibit Bar combines the joy of music, creating & drinking to create a truly unique experience.

Come along to The Exhibit every Wednesday night for an evening of life drawing like no other. Lead by professional artist and teacher Dan Whiteson, the focus is on encouraging freedom of expression and full engagement with the joy of the creative process. With over five years experience honing his unique approach to teaching, and combining his love of music with his passion for art, you can expect

a truly memorable evening of creation, eating and drinking all set to an eclectic soundtrack. At only £7 per person including all materials, this is life drawing with a difference. Affordable. Informal. Unique.

05/05/2021

Holy moly folks it's actually happening! Life Drawing. In real life. Real models. Real students. Real teacher (sort of)!

Yes life drawing is BACK at The Exhibit from Wednesday 19th May (and every week thereafter). Tickets will be very limited initially, with everything running in line with the latest COVID rules and regs, so get in there quick to book your tickets from bit.ly/ld_exhibit!

See you there!

Dan

21/04/2021

Next up in my 'Sunday Sessions' series of abstract/expressive drawing workshops is the amazing Marlene Dumas. Join me on the 25th from 13:00-14:30 GMT by donating what you can at paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing.

Using 'found' images from magazines, newspapers, photographs and more, Marlene Dumas’ intense, haunting and often controversial paintings of bodies and faces are not portraits per se, but rather use the figure to express an emotion or state of mind. She paints to provoke, and her work deals with issues of race, gender, sexuality, violence and much more.

After the usual dive into her career and working methods, we'll attempt to channel her sensitivity and also use her 'wet on wet' (or approximations of) technique to create our own emotionally charged work from second hand sources.

See you there!

Dan

16/04/2021

Next up in my Sunday Sessions is the one and only Alexander Calder! Donate what you can via paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing for access.

We'll be looking at his wide-ranging practise, taking in his wire portraits and sculptures, his kinetic abstracts, awe-inspiring mobiles and monumental stabiles, before creating our own joyful pieces of 2D or 3D using traditional drawing materials, wire and card. It's going to great - go to http://www.danwhiteson.com/teaching-1 #/sunday-sessions/ for more details!

See you there

Dan

11/04/2021

Today's the day folks! Next up in my Sunday Sessions series is the incredible Alma Thomas. Join me on Zoom from 13:00-14:30 GMT - donate what you can at paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing for access!

Despite only beginning her artistic career in earnest at the age of 68 (after 35 years working as an art teacher), Alma Thomas is arguably one of the most important American painters of the 20th century. In her short but incredibly productive career, she developed a colourful, abstract visual language that was a unique confluence of her influences and education, and stood her apart from many of her contemporaries.

As always we'll spend part one of the workshop familiarising ourselves with a range of her work and inspirations; including the natural world, space & Snoopy(!), before creating our own vibrant mosaic-style abstract compositions.

See you there!

Dan

03/04/2021

In case you missed it, my 'Sunday Sessions' will be continuing on through April, and the first workshop is themed around the incomparable genius of Vincent Van Gogh. If you're at a loose end this Easter Sunday (4th April) join me on zoom from 13:00-14:30 GMT for in depth art history and expressive drawing exercises inspired by his practise.

It's gonna be a cracker - see you there!

Dan

30/03/2021

SUNDAY SESSION IX - VINCENT VAN GOGH
4th April, 13:00-14:30 GMT
Art history & expressive drawing exercises on zoom
Donate what you can for access via paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing or go to http://www.danwhiteson.com/teaching-1 #/sunday-sessions/ for more info

Vincent Van Gogh needs no introduction. As one of the most naturally talented draughtsmen the world has ever seen, his dynamic, emotionally intense work is part of the fabric of modern life, and his influence on the artists of the 20th century nearly unparalleled.

In this workshop we will look into the extraordinary range of work he produced, from his tortured self-portraits to his vibrant, musical landscapes and everything in between. We’ll focus on his use of mark-making; his drawings constructed from expressive lines and dots; paintings given almost uncomfortable levels of intensity or vibrancy through lyrical, swirling brushstrokes. After soaking up his techniques and approaches, we’ll then create our own rhythmic, gestural representations of chosen subjects; be it a landscape, portrait or still life.

26/03/2021

SUNDAY SESSION VIII | CLYFFORD STILL
28th March 13:00-14:30 GMT
Art history & abstract drawing exercises
Donate what you can via: paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing
Full details: http://www.danwhiteson.com/teaching-1 #/sunday-sessions/

One of the foremost painters in the first generation Abstract Expressionists, Clyfford Still is not as well-known as some of his contemporaries, but his influence and talent cannot be underestimated. His mature works are huge colour field paintings inspired by a childhood growing up in the Canadian prairies; apparently random jagged shapes of bright, joyful yellows and oranges compete with blacks and blues; each area seemingly torn from upper layers of the canvas and built up in thick impasto that shimmers and dances in the light.

We’ll chart his early, naturalistic work and his shift toward abstraction in the late 30s & early 40s, before attempting to create our own Still-inspired colour field ‘paintings’ through a combination of preparatory sketches and a unique collage exercise.

21/03/2021

Todays the day folks! Join me this afternoon from 13:00-14:30 GMT for the next in my series of abstract/expressive drawing workshops; this time around we're looking at the brilliant, tortured genius of Alberto Giacometti. Donate what you can via paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing for access or visit http://www.danwhiteson.com/teaching-1 #/sunday-sessions/ for all the info.

As always the workshop will be a unique combination of an in-depth art history presentation in part one, before a practical exercise in the second half inspired by the work of the great man himself. See you there!

Dan

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19/03/2021

SUNDAY SESSION VII | ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
21st March 13:00-14:30 GMT
Art history & expressive drawing exercises
Donate what you can via: paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing
Full details: http://www.danwhiteson.com/teaching-1 #/sunday-sessions/

Primarily known for his deeply unsettling, elongated figurative sculptures, Alberto Giacometti was also a highly accomplished painter and draughtsman. His drawings and paintings echo many of the features of his 3D work, and are completely unique to him. An astonishingly harsh self-critic, he worked obsessively to create images that could come close to assuaging his rampant negativity about his abilities; building layer upon layer of paint onto his canvases in a vain attempt to replicate the vision in his mind.

Whilst we’ll hope to not scale the psychological lows he experienced during the creative process, we will attempt to inhabit his tireless and physical approach to making in the second half of our workshop, in which we’ll be making our own personal and expressive figurative drawings (of ourselves or another – ideally from observation but not necessarily).

See you there!

Dan

11/03/2021

SUNDAY SESSION 6 | PIET MONDRIAN. So excited for this one! The next workshop in my new series of online abstract/expressive drawing classes is on the mighty Piet Mondrian. Join me this Sunday 14th March from 13:00-14:30 GMT for art history and experimental drawing. The drawing exercise I've got planned for this one is an absolute beaut, and he's one of the most compelling artists to talk about too.

Donate what can via www.paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing for access to the zoom link (all purchases include unlimited access to the recording too), and give me a shout if you have any questions! See all the info at http://www.danwhiteson.com/teaching-1 #/sunday-sessions/

See you there!

Dan

06/03/2021

The next in my 'Sunday Sessions' series of abstract/expressive drawing workshops is inspired by Georgia O'Keefe and her enlarged flower paintings. Join me this Sunday 7th March from 13:00-14:30 GMT for an in depth look at her life and work in part one, before we create our own semi-abstract drawings by elevating the beauty of the objects around us. I am absolutely loving hosting these and teaching something a little bit different, and the response has been overwhelming so far!

Get access by donating what you can via: paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing, or visit http://www.danwhiteson.com/teaching-1 #/sunday-sessions/ which has all the information on this week's session and the other three upcoming classes in March (Piet Mondrian on the 14th, Alberto Giacometti on the 21st & Clyfford Still on the 28th)

See you there!

Dan

27/02/2021

Just one day to go until the next Sunday Session and it's the one I've perhaps been looking forward to teaching more than any other so far - we'll be focusing on the extraordinary work of Howard Hodgkin! Join me on zoom on Sunday 28th Feb from 13:00-14:30 GMT, see below for full details and donate via paypal.me/freeformlifedrawing or visit http://www.danwhiteson.com/teaching-1 #/sunday-sessions/ for access!

Howard Hodgkin's paintings are a beautifully harmonious collection of swirls; dots; gesture & vibrant colour that sing from the painted frames in which they hang. Seemingly devoid of any obvious naturalism, Hodgkin nonetheless defines himself as, "A representational painter, but not a painter of appearance. I paint representational pictures of emotional situations." Working from memory, he would regularly take years to finish a piece; painting and then re-painting the wooden boards on which he worked until the image in the front of him said what he wanted it to say.

After diving into the visual feast of his back catalogue, we will create abstract emotional representations of a chosen memory using colour, mark making and our own artistic impulses.

See you there!

Dan

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