{"id":3603,"date":"2024-06-04T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2024-06-04T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T15:23:44","slug":"more-life-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2024\/06\/more-life-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"More life drawings."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><span class=\"mycenter\"><span class=\"image-share-wrap\"><span class=\"hidden-share\" style=\"width:24px;\"><a rel='nofollow' href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2024%2F06%2Fmore-life-drawings%2F&picture=https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bar-life-drawing-in-pastels-on-pastel-paper-15-09-2022-761x1024.jpg\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/facebook.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=More%20life%20drawings.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2024%2F06%2Fmore-life-drawings%2F&hashtags=\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/twitter.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2024%2F06%2Fmore-life-drawings%2F\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/google.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2024%2F06%2Fmore-life-drawings%2F&media=https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bar-life-drawing-in-pastels-on-pastel-paper-15-09-2022-761x1024.jpg&description=No%20posts%20for%20the%20last%20few%20months%20as%20I%26%23039%3Bve%20had%20to%20move%20town%20%28from%20Huntingdon%20up%20to%20Newark-on-Trent%29%20so%20I%26%23039%3Bve%20had%20to%20leave%20my%20life%20drawing%20group%20of%20the%20last%2025-ish%20years.Farewell%20%26%23039%3BPencil%20Squeezers%26%23039%3B%20which%20eventually%20became%20part%20of%20The%20Buckden%20Life%20Drawing%20Group%20when...\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/pinterest.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2024%2F06%2Fmore-life-drawings%2F&title=More%20life%20drawings.\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/reddit.png' \/><\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bar-life-drawing-in-pastels-on-pastel-paper-15-09-2022.jpg\"><img  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bar-life-drawing-in-pastels-on-pastel-paper-15-09-2022-761x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Life drawing in pastels on pastel paper,\" class=\"wp-image-3554 cool-image-share\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bar-life-drawing-in-pastels-on-pastel-paper-15-09-2022-761x1024.jpg 761w, https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bar-life-drawing-in-pastels-on-pastel-paper-15-09-2022-380x512.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bar-life-drawing-in-pastels-on-pastel-paper-15-09-2022-768x1034.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bar-life-drawing-in-pastels-on-pastel-paper-15-09-2022.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No posts for the last few months as I&#8217;ve had to move town (from Huntingdon up to Newark-on-Trent) so I&#8217;ve had to leave my life drawing group of the last 25-ish years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farewell &#8216;Pencil Squeezers&#8217; which eventually became part of The Buckden Life Drawing Group when Huntingdonshire Regional College got run down and sold off.  I&#8217;ll miss the artistic discipline (an hour and three quarters of concentration &#8211; trying to capture what a living person looks like), followed by some lively chat down the pub  with all my friends from the group. Many thanks to all the models over the years too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate this time I&#8217;ve added some more recent drawings to this website, (not the most recent, I&#8217;ve yet to photograph them, I&#8217;ll tell you when that&#8217;s done). You can see them by clicking on &#8216;Figure Studies&#8217; on the top.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No posts for the last few months as I&#8217;ve had to move town (from Huntingdon up to Newark-on-Trent) so I&#8217;ve had to leave my life drawing group of the last 25-ish years. Farewell &#8216;Pencil Squeezers&#8217; which eventually became part of The Buckden Life Drawing Group when Huntingdonshire Regional College got run down and sold off. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2024\/06\/more-life-drawings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More life drawings.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}