To be honest, anyone can do the art I'm doing. Given more time I'd be able to invest more detail in the portraits. Most artists will have dayjobs as well as their artistic practise, like me. Mine just happens to be acting in @totoroshow.bsky.social

Another sneak preview of #PortraitForThamesmead with the glorious Woman 3. 29 minutes charcoal on paper 200cm x 150cm

Time lapse of the charcoal on paper drawing. Part of the #PortraitForThamesmead project. Opens next Friday at Lakeside Centre #thamesmead

Work in progress of the first of the portraits for #PortraitForThamesmead at Lakeside Centre, supported by @bowarts.bsky.social and @tmld.bsky.social and @allgooddreamers.bsky.social charcoal on paper 200cm x 150cm

Life Drawing based on a sketch from a session with @tmld.bsky.social a few years ago Drawn in Procreate #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #lifemodel #nudemaleart #nudemale #gayart #queerart #lgbtqia #gayartist #artistsonbluesky #queerartist #homoeroticart

A portion of last week's attendees for the session with Lorenzo

4 charcoal on paper drawings from the @tmld.bsky.social #lifedrawing sessions with model Megan Savitry

The final 2 20 minute drawings of @megirama_art from the @tmld.bsky.social life drawing session last night

© Stephen Datz. 'Rain Dancing.' Oil on canvas, n.d. 40 x 50 inches.

Some of the shorter sketches from yesterday's #lifedrawing session from @tmld.bsky.social. I love how the 5 minutes sketches are so loose and ghostly, compared to the tighter drawings later

It was a glorious start to the drawing classes that I've been teaching. Learning to keep the participants engaged and thinking like artists is challenging and fun. @allgooddreamers.bsky.social

A 20 minute drawing of Ashley from the @tmld.bsky.social session this evening

Wenning Seated, in @carandache.bsky.social oil pastel from the @tmld session on Monday

Loving the effect these @carandache.bsky.social give on black Canford paper. From the session with model and dancer Wenning via @tmld.bsky.social last night

Loving the effect these @carandache.bsky.social give on black Canford paper. From the session with model and dancer Wenning via @tmld.bsky.social last night

2 charcoal drawings of Monika from last night's life drawing session with @tmld.bsky.social

& #Woodblock prints from the #Hiroshige exhibition at @britishmuseum.bsky.social running until 7th Sept. Left: "Iidabashi" by Toshi Yoshida. Right: "Crowds Visiting the Shrine of Benzaiten at Enoshima in Sagami Province" by Utagawa Hiroshige

WenLing, from tonight's life drawing session with @tmld.bsky.social at TACO in #thamesmead

Another charcoal drawing of Timmy Rows from the life drawing session on Mondays.

The next life seeing session in Thamesmead in July 7th with Wenning www.tickettailor.com/events/thame...

The wonderful @timmy_rows (insta) from this week's life drawing session with @tmld.bsky.social in Thamesmead. Next season with Taiwanese dancer Wenning 7th July #lifedrawing #art

"Edward" from tonight's The Playing Field at Trinity Laban

I remember having a discussion with some1 about how I couldn't be a good artist because I'm already an actor. He believed you had to specialise to be the best. I believe in not telling myself "no" I didn't tell him I was also a published photographer, a Guinness Record Holder, had 3 plays performed

I thought I'd try setting up shop here on Bluesky....no better way than to begin with Noah Davis at The Barbican. Titled The Architect the work is thought to be of Paul Williams, the essential architect of Los Angeles. #Paulwilliams #Noahdavis

Just at the brilliant #NoahDavis exhib (catch it before the 11th May) @barbicancentre.bsky.social and reminded what a genius William Kentridge. Here are details from a Pablo Del Rio series of paintings Www.barbican.org.uk

A drawing from the final day of the the #RAWLabsResidency for Royal Albert Wharf Studios. Thx to BowArts for the opportunity to explore these portraits & themes in my work. . . . #artinsouthlond #art #lifedrawing #artist #artistsoninstagram #charcoaldrawing #TheNotebooksOfKazumiFujimoto

The A1 charcoal drawing and the original a6 sketch. Because the play was Aug 2022 I'm just extempirisong the information that's there. #Art #artist. Residency in progress at RAW Studios Lab E16 2XJ until 27th April

I'm enjoying working on this scale! Really interesting to see what I'm learning about seeing

Happy 37th Birthday to My Neighbour Totoro, released in Japan on this day in 1988.

1st video of the drawing residency. Working on sketches from notebooks that were part of a play I was in, where instead of my character taking note of the surroundings, I drew the audience settling in. Now translating them into larger scale

Next Monday 14th April. Portrait Workshop for beginner and intermediate #artists featuring Thomas the model! www.tickettailor.com/events/thame...

Gorgeously gothic exhibition in London. Sadly finishes today. Enjoy these images. #BrothersQuay @swedenborghouse.bsky.social

The inimitable @giuseppeclaudio.bsky.social from a session a while ago. Charcoal on paper #artmoots #fyp #artists #southlondonartists #lifedrawing

Artists, remember that you are an agent of culture, not a functionary of the social order. #art #culture #artandculture #wisewords #wisdom #wisewomen #DailyInspiration #dailywisdom #Creativity #Inspiration #artists

I'm sure there are more #southlondonartists here #artists #Art #lifedrawing

More #ART! More #lifedrawing come to our session in Thamesmead, a short walk from Abbey Wood Station with shapes being thrown by Vanesa www.tickettailor.com/events/thame...

Thomas Girtin, Rochester Cathedral from the North East, with the Castle Beyond, 1797 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1110096

I've got this coming up! A workshop and a residency! Please feel free to drop in during the residency or book for the portrait drawing workshop www.tickettailor.com/events/thame...?

George Jones, Untitled, https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1077320

Behind the scenes sketches of the cast at My Neighbour Totoro

SPEED RUN! #MyNeighbourTotoro

Recent charcoal pencil of MimiMoonchild

Come along for the regular #lifedrawing session in Thamesmead this Wed 5th. Doors open at 6.45 pm

But if you can't get tickets for that, the next day at 7pm in Thamesmead, I'm working with Giuseppe Claudio for the @tmld.bsky.social session. www.tickettailor.com/events/thame... #Art #artists #lifedrawing #london

Tue 4th I'm running the #lifedrawing session at Nunnery Gallery in Bow featuring Ddraig. Tickets are nearly sold out! bowarts.org/event/bow-sk... #Art #artists

End of week 2 rehearsals for My Neighbour Totoro. Knackered but expansive in a huge cwtch

Next week featuring male life model Thomas for our evening life drawing session #Art booking via www.thamesmeadlifedrawing.co.uk/lifedrawing

Life drawing link for Thomas' session www.tickettailor.com/events/thame...

Popped into London Graphic Centre to buy my niece a gift. While looking for a pad of black paper a guy said, "Oh these are a good brand". He was looking for sketch pads too. His NY resolution was to draw every day. I suggested getting an A6 mini sketch pad so he could carry it with him. I found him/