Life Drawing Class "Kai With Broom"

graphite on bristol board

image approx: 17"x5"

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It was great to have a male model in the life drawing class today. Love drawing from a live human being!!

"Jake" #34 in a series of 50 faces

6"x6"

graphite on bristol board

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I've been teaching an 8 week beginning drawing class for adults that had its last meeting last night. I was inspired by the people in it as I worked on this. One person mentioned how he was seeing much more in his subject than he would have a few weeks ago and as I thought about that, it made me want to keep finding and putting in as many subtleties as I could--until I ran out of time! I don't know how well the scan shows the subtleties anyway! But that class was so great! They worked so hard and the improvement was amazing! I'm really proud of them.

"Jake, Seated" (sold)

12"x6"

Oil on board

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Jake is a great model. When I was in the class this last Friday, the warm up poses weren't the quickly-changing gestures I expected, but one very long--8 or 10 minutes, maybe--and very slow movement during which he went from bending at his waist to his arms stretched above his head, then out wide and back down. He held a scarf in his hands that was stretched taut between his arms the entire time. His body was twisting into different positions through all this and was full of a contained tension. Pretty cool!

"Model #1"

7"x5"

Oil on Gessoboard

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It's good to be back!!! I finished the 73 illustrations and got them shipped off and am happy to be back to the painting again! I took advantage of having time to go to a life-drawing session yesterday to draw as well as take a few photos to paint from. I can't remember how long it's been since I've worked from a nude model. How wonderful to do it! I'd forgotten how much I love just seeing the subtleties in the body and the lyricism in the way the bones and muscles flow together.

Getting back to painting again has been painful! I worked on a little one Thursday that I scraped off three times before I finally realized I wasn't going to get it that day! Not painting very much for nearly three months definitely takes its toll. On the other hand, I need to be reminded to have a certain humility in the face of what I do--and once I start to feel pretty sure of myself, I tend to forget that. I also saw what huge expectations I had as far as what I'd hope to accomplish once I got back to work--once again, to quote my dad, "let it go, Louie, let it go"!