The model was older, I estimate about 70. I don't aim for a likeness, rather looking intently at the form and letting my hand draw. Anyway, thought I'd share. First session since 2006!
The room was packed, nearly every table taken. While I hadn't planned to create backgrounds for my sketches, I found myself hurriedly sweeping coloured conte crayon over the next page in between poses. Then quickly rubbing with a paper towel to blend and wipe the excess pigmented dust onto the floor behind me with paper towels!
The conte crayons are similar to chalk pastels, brightly coloured, though a little less dusty.
These are the sketches as is, untouched, simply photographed in late afternoon sunlight, and slightly colour-corrected to more closely match the originals . There are more, some I don't like, some awaiting colour.
All Life Drawin
Four one-minute poses- I've always liked drawing them as a crowd.
This was the final 15 min pose- I liked this drawing as is, so did another drawing of the same pose in the next slide.
Or view as a slideshow...
Lovely. Love the lyrical lines.
ReplyDeleteOh, that was quick! I was just responding to an earlier comment of yours, clicked back and here you are, Barbara! Thank you. You know, when you're drawing that quickly, many 1 min poses, a lot of 5 min, a few 10 min, and two 15 min, you don't have time to think about what you're doing. Just eye and hand, almost an automatic drawing without any thought to express something. The pages fly by, and you hope you caught something, though you haven't time to work on it. :)
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