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Life Drawing V
Monday, August 4, 2008 | Skip to Comments
I thought I’d post some more of my life drawing studies. These were done in the Fall 2007. They’re charcoal on 18″ x 24″ Strathmore drawing paper.
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Life Drawing IV
Friday, October 5, 2007 | Skip to Comments
I just realized that I have more life drawing sketches from last spring that are already scanned and sitting here on my computer. Here’s another set of two minute gestures.
This was a great model. She was Native American and, in addition to this ball gown, also had a tribal costume that was really fun to draw. I’d post some of those but, unfortunately, I lost my mojo during that session and everything that came out of my pen just stunk. At two minutes a pose, I became flustered — lost in the intricate details of the costuming. The lesson I continue to relearn is that drawing from life isn’t just about copying what one sees but making choices — the artist isn’t an impartial viewer, but an advocate for a specific and unique way of looking at the world.
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Life Drawing III
Thursday, April 5, 2007 | Skip to Comments
A minute? That’s time enough to take the cap off my pen — but to draw? Instinct and luck. But how else does one capture the quick, sudden movements of life? It seems impossible.
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Life Drawing II
Friday, March 16, 2007 | Skip to Comments
The pace quickens. Only two minutes per pose. How does one capture to beauty of the human form is such a short amount of time? I am struggling. Do I focus on the way the fat and meat are shaped by gravity and the force exerted by the body? Or heed the beckoning call of the bones that lie beneath the surface? Perhaps the focus should be on geometry, the body broken into planes and spacial coordinates? I have no answer.
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Life Drawing I
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 | Skip to Comments
Here’s the first in what I hope will become a series of posts of my life drawing sketches. The sketches in this set were all drawn over the past couple of weeks in a 9″ x 12″ notepad with a ball-point pen. Each pose lasted five minutes.
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On The Lamb
Saturday, October 14, 2006 | Skip to Comments
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