I would turn this one into a painting if they had allowed photographs of the poses. Eight minutes per pose just wasn't long enough. The poses were complex - that foreshortening! (You say I should try to paint this anyway? I dunno. I suppose half-abstract is ok. Maybe is all I'll say.)
Fairly happy with this drawing, except I didn't have long enough to put the right dashes and dots to get a semblance of her toes! It was a choice - after drawing her body on the page, use the remaining few minutes on her feet or her face? I quickly sketched in her features. A 15 min pose. And absolutely no time for the cushions she sat against!
At Super Wonder Gallery on Saturday night, Feb 22nd, 8:30-11pm
As is normal in a life-drawing session, there are many 'warm up' poses of 1, 3, 5 min, which isn't long enough for me to do much more than scribble.
I need at least an hour on one pose to do a drawing that I feel is getting there.
Christian, the gallery owner, an artist himself, is going to run these sessions twice a month. If we draw more frequently, we'll get faster and better he says. I'm sure he's right.
It is nerve-wracking, drawing to timers, mapping the model sitting or standing in three real dimensions onto your little paper. For the first time, I worked with the shadows. It's always nice to see new things emerging in your style. The same old, same old gets so tedious.
Because I never know what is going to work with that evening's quirks, I have to take a range of supplies, Art Graf, in case I want to use a brush, coloured pencils, pastels, charcoal, conte and my favourite, plain graphite.
This was a 2B woodless graphite pencil. I didn't have a sharpener, darn. They are on Moleskine sketchbook paper, A3 (11.75" x 16.5"). It looks like Moleskine no longer sells the soft cover version, but I found I liked it a lot, even if I had to throw out some sheets of the too-too-short sketches.
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