January 2012
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December 2011
2 posts
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Grimm Tales review
Click on the image bellow to see a review of Grimm Tales from Mary O’Connor of the York University student paper…
November 2011
3 posts
They are playing Christmas music
in the shops. I thought that this was much too early, but it would seem we are but weeks away. Ive been rather swept up in things lately and have been off of the whole blogging thing. I’ll be back to it soon. In the mean time here is our shiney new website for Draw and the life drawing classes… www.draw-brighton.co.uk
Fig 1. Draw logo (typeface by Colophon)
October 2011
1 post
Corporeal: A Night of Drawing from the Human... →
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Fig 1. The Golden Ratio (Corporeal flyer front by The Entente)
Each year, as part of the Brighton White Night festival we run a drawing event where we seek to push the boundaries of our figure drawing classes, in 2009 we ran ‘Drawn from the Deck’ at Komedia, in 2010 The Cabinets of…
August 2011
6 posts
Projects...
I’m being a bit slow on the blogging front …Ive been working on a new Drawing Circus with the Life Drawing crew (Some info here) and have met some lovely new people including the multi-talented artist, model and aerialist Nomi Mcleod who has a rather lovely blog here: www.airandparchment.blogspot.com.
Fig 1. The Drawing Circus II
Ive also been working on plans for this...
Painting is dumb
Music and literature have always had more influence on the things that I want to paint and draw than visual work.
Painters, printmakers, creators of tactile work make me want to draw, to make lines and marks, to revel in the manipulation of surfaces and to grapple with the how and the what of image making. But it is the poetry of verbal storytelling that gives me hunger for the why. Sometimes it...
Been a while
Haven’t written anything on here for a while; mostly been posting on the Life Drawing Blog of late. Ive been quite busy preparing for the next Drawing Circus, the Big Draw and White Night in October but I thought Id sit down and root through the drawings of the last few months. Here are a few life drawings, Rosie very patiently sat for them.
Fig. 1 Rosie at Rinaldo’s
I spent a...
July 2011
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June 2011
12 posts
Painting
Ive been getting a little painting done in the fair weather and the foul. Here some oil sketches of Emma and Caro.
Fig 1. Emma
Fig 2. Caroline
All made up
This weekend I’ve got work at the Made Up popup shop in London, it is at Arthur and Albert Studio, 50 Acton Mews, London E8. 10am-6pm today and 11am-4pm tomorrow.
Molotov Jukebox
Fig 1. Molotov Jukebox
For anyone that doesn’t know Molotov Jukebox, the kings of Gystep this post will be a very necessary eduction. I first met Nat, lead singer and dynamo of the group when she life modeled for BLDS last year; her patience as a model is belied by the passionate energy of her personality and probably owes a lot to her stage and screen background (About a Boy, Harry...
New studio layout...
Ive had a sort out in the studio, it looks almost clean.
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May 2011
9 posts
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New paper
Fig 1. Frankie on new paper
I like trying out new paper. At the moment I like using a very smooth ivory 240-300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper; off-white Somerset printing paper is also surprisingly good to draw on although it is very soft and doesn’t suit hard pencil marks. I recently found Moleskine paper takes pencil beautifully and on a quest for a good smooth paper realised that...
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Tooveys Auction
This weekend will be that last chance to see our Open House ‘Fugitive Ink’ and the new drawings that I have up there, for more information see my earlier post on the House.
This weekend will also see the auction of three pieces of my work (pictured below) at the 5th annual auction of Contemporary Art by Self Representing Artists in Sussex. The brain child of owner of the auction house...
Fringe report review of Fugitive Ink...
John Park, editor of online Fringe culture review magazine ‘Fringe Report’ made a welcome appearance at the private view for our Open House Fugitive Ink, here’s what he had to say…
‘Jake Spicer is an artistic tour de force. His focus is women, in paint and drawing, naked, in costume. They relax, sprawl, pose on beds, sofas and chairs. The interiors they inhabit and the costumes...
The Drawing Circus
Fig 1. The Drawing Circus
Roll up! Roll up! The Drawing Circus comes to town…marvel at the wonders of the human form as clowns, acrobats and performers of all kinds are frozen mid-act for your drawing delight!
This May the Drawing Circus will be pitching up in two places for three sperate drawing events…
The Drawing Circus I & II: New England House, Brighton
Two long ...
Fugitive Ink
…is the name of the open house where I will be showing six new pieces of work, including a painting of Johanna Samuelson, life model and half of the ‘Seeing Red’ photography collaboration and several drawings of Francesca Cluney who will be exhibiting her own crochet Jewelery at the house.
Fig 1. Fugitive Ink (Click image for more info)
The wonderfully talented Molly Perrin...
April 2011
5 posts
A Mermaid
Some lovely pictures from the AOH launch party last night by lucyluella
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Francesca Cluney as Waterhouse’s ‘A Mermaid’, created by Jake Spicer and the Brighton Life Drawing Sessions team. Photographed at the Artists Open House Launch Party, Latest Music Bar, Brighton, 27th of April 2011.
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Spring has sprung
Its very suddenly Spring, Ive been to the beach, received my first minor sun burn of the year and been able to leave the studio in the evening just a shirt (and trousers, just no coat). We’ve had the first balcony picnic and the first film and fold night of the year and I’m feeling thoroughly positive about the looming presence of May on the calendar.
Here’s the week in a few...
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Orson and Valentine
A puppet play and Brighton Festival Fringe Event by Daisy Jordon.
”Orson and Valentine” is a darkly beautiful puppet play based on a French medieval folk tale, using hand-crafted table-top and shadow puppets to recount in miniature the captivating story of infant twin brothers abandoned in the woods. Whilst one brother is adopted and brought up in aristocracy, the other is raised by...
March 2011
3 posts
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So much for regular posting
So my attempts at a regular post have been thwarted somewhat by a wonderfully refreshing lack of sitting-staring-at-a-computer time. I figured though that with lots of exciting things going on I should probably post some kind of update, so here it is.
Whats been happening lately…
Life Drawing has been happily ticking along, hight lights being a Tarot themed drawing session, Marilyn Monroe...
February 2011
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