Martin’s Monthly Pencil Parlour

Start 15.00, you have to be in by then! Tickets cost 10,-.

Martin’s Monthly Pencil Parlour is a monthly live model drawing workshop. Bring your own materials!

Every month, Martin Draax picks a new theme and invites a model who poses in dynamic action poses. These could be dancers, cosplayers, or athletes, for example. Sometimes nude, sometimes in costume. Always tasteful. The most fun drawing salon in Amsterdam!

This afternoon, we have model Adam with his dog. His dog can sit in a still position as good as the booked model. We’re going to do an experiment: Adam will take 7 poses in the nude, and after the break he will be dressed as a mine worker and try to get into the same poses. You can draw before / after sketches or draw clothes over the nudes you did before the pause to learn how clothes fall over the body.

The poses range from very short (1 minute) to medium-long (20 minutes). Martin plays thematic music on vinyl and guides you through the afternoon. Bring your own materials: a pencil and 20 sheets of paper is enough, but anything goes of course. Martin will bring thematic music on vinyl and will also teach you some tricks and methods – the more often you come, the better you’ll get! Beginners welcome.