The Beehive, London, 16 August 2018

Mid-August, mid-holiday season, is often a low point for life drawing group attendance numbers yet there was a respectable showing of local artists for my summer return to The Beehive for Tottenham Art Classes. They selected their free drawing materials, then settled down nice and prompt for organiser Taz to begin proceedings at 7pm.

Promptness was critical as we started with the shortest poses: 1-minute, 2, 3, 4, and 5-minutes. Anybody turning up quarter of an hour late would have missed exactly half our evening’s offerings. I finished the first period with two 15-minute poses, and one of 10-minutes. After the break, two 20-minute poses brought the session to a close.

I last attended this venue on the occasion of the group’s fourth birthday, duo modelling with Esther on 18 January. A few works from that session had made it onto the walls of their Two Hours : To Ours exhibition at Craving Coffee in May. Hopefully some of the works I didn’t get a chance to see here this evening will make it to the next one.