This is the Seventh in a series of pencil studies that I made on Saturday mornings between 1993 and 1995 in the Main Hall at East Croydon United Reform Church with sessions run by Joel Arnstein.

This image features a male model called Steven. The drawing was made in September 1993.

It must have been quite cold in that hall as Steven has an electric bar-heater quite close and facing him. Although, he was posing in the nude as most of the models do and this was the autumn, this is the first nude-study I’ve yet seen incorporating a bar-heater as the main object.

Dave Draper, June 2014