After a few weeks my lifedrawing routine was fully established. Candid Art Trust in Angel offered two daily sessions from tuesdays to thursdays, plus a drink and draw on fridays evenings.
Josei Deighton ran a group at the Vaulty Towers pub, next to Waterloo Station with a bunch of excentric models.
The London Life Drawing Group helds sessions in Bethnal Green, Hoxton, Earls Court,and Hackney.
Finally, saturdays and sundays Tim Allbright offers the best price in Aldgate, 8 pounds per session plus coffee and cookies, in a big window room and with a great selection of models.
In some of these events, especially those hosted by the London Life Drawing group, it was necessary to arrive in advance, given the large influx of public.
I forget many groups, practically in all the community centers of the London neighborhoods there are lifedrawing events. It is a draftman paradise!
One evening in Hoxton, I was preparing for the session when I saw the model entering in the room. She was a brunette woman in her 40s, with skin, Britishly white (so white that for the first time I felt that it did not belong to the same white race as them). We both looked at each other and were surprised. It was Louise, the woman I met at the National Gallery, who called herself Gilda in her second life as candestine model.