GoldFoil Magazine - ISSUE 08 - DEJA VU

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A SUNDAY LIVE DRAWING SESSION WITH

DRAWING CABARET COUTURE

Drawing Cabaret Couture is an online Fashion Gallery and independent life drawing production company based in London. Creating Haute Couture performative drawing classes and immersive art events across the globe.

Drawing Cabaret Couture was created by model and professional dancer Janet Mayer and artist & set designer Matthew Lawrence. Together they work with some of the finest fashion creatives to bring these fabulous art classes to life online. Matthew designs and builds the most dynamic sets to accompany the designer featured that week whilst Janet with her androgynous poses and flexible movements bring the designers garments alive. All to a carefully planned themed soundtrack as well as narrative promoting the designer and creatives involved. The classes have already gained a huge global following of professional artists illustrators as well as those who simply just want to immerse themselves in this unique new drawing experience. When taking part in a two-hour art class online you will emerge yourselves into a fresh and fantasy world letting go of preconceptions with focus on colours and shapes whilst taking inspiration from this incredible visual experience. By taking part in such creativity it is both relaxing and meditative and leaves you feeling a sense of content after the class. We do a editorial photo shoot after each class of which we can allow you to have the images also for your publication.

Creativity plays a huge part in well being and many of the artists feedback is about how these classes are helping with their own mental wellbeing. Classes start at £10 per ticket or you can join their monthly Patreon with reasonable subscription prices from just £15 per month for unlimited weekly classes. They even offer gift cards which make excellent presents for those unique gift ideas.

If you thought that live drawing is a thing of the past - think again. Thanks to Zoom, Drawing Cabaret Couture brings the experience of having fun, relaxing, and improving your art skills straight to your living room, so you never have to leave your brushes to dry again, and not even a global pandemic can stop you from creating amazing art. Janet and Matthew go above and beyond when it comes to building their sets and working with inspiring designers and artists. Supporting them on Patreon would give you access to all of their classes for the month.

Most of the time their classes are scheduled to run in the morning, and then later in the evening again, which means it is really flexible so you do not have to compromise and miss on an incredible class.

And if you are like me, I usually like to be in my own shell hiding away and never really showing my work to anyone, don't worry, while many artists would show off their work at the end of the stream, you can have your camera switched off so you can feel free from the pressure of having other people look at your art.

Karina Bondareva

The live drawing session I attended was inspired by Alexander McQueen.The artist Karina Bondareva took up on a challenge to recreate the iconic Horn of Plenty red dress only using ''a bunch of felt, insulation tape, paperclips, and hot glue'.

The creative team brought this incredible dress to life through their lighting expertise, the model's poses, and the high quality camera they use to capture the model and all the important details, which truly make you feel like you are in the same room.

I was really impressed by the head piece and sleeves created using pins and foil, and I thought that the way the dress folded on itself and showcased all the wonderful patch work was quite brilliant. I was really excited to see Karina’s work for the first time and I would love to follow her journey in the future. She is a final year student at Central Saint Martins.

She has had the media attention on her since last Summer when she participated in a challenge recreating red carpet looks, and she recreated a spectacular red dress entirely out of red paper only using glue.

You can find her work on her Instagram @thisisbykarina

At the end of the Zoom stream, artists get to show off their work to others, and here we have selected our favourite pieces of this stream, along with an interview at the end of our artist of the month - Lindy Dunbar.