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Thanks for that, I will definitely try and get to the Nation Gallery on Friday. On 16/6/08 10:46, "malcolm banthorpe" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > One thing that drawing a painting does is to force you to look much more > closely and intensly at the painting than would perhaps occur normally. From > this may follow some insight into how the artist worked and the intentions > behind the painting. Leon Kossof, Frank Auerbach and other artists have > spent considerable time drawing from paintings at the National Gallery. > > The idea itself is exploited by the National Gallery's free Talk and Draw > sessions at 1pm every Friday which seem to be quite popular. The sessions > last one hour and consist of two parts. First there is a talk of 10 minutes > or so about a particular painting by an art historian. The rest of the time > devoted to drawing it or an some aspect of it, led by a practising artist. > Materials and drawing boards are provided and details of which painting is > featured each week can be found in the What's On section of the National > Gallery Website.