LIFE DRAWING

Once a month

for three hours.

I pasted scraps of Canson papers

on left over foamcore.

Then I could just walk around the model

to grab a pose.

Ha! They sure look like different models...

LIFE drawing

HERE

are three from a short session.

3 minute poses....

DERWENT INKTENSE PENCILS

dipped in water and rough brushed.

All in a row...

I bailed halfway through

the morning session.  

For privacy,

the model was against a big pillar

with a beautiful, but glaring,

waterfront view behind.

Sorta fried my eyes after a while...

Life Drawing

Here's the last of the series
from last week.  I've spent today doing some more
background papers.

Life Drawing

Here's another
from last week's
session.

Chalk and pencil
on rough -bruhed
acrylic.

Life Drawing

We have a great old building in Key West; the Armory from the 19th century. Inside on Wednesday nights for most of the year there's a life drawing class. This is from my first time last week.

The usual quick 2-5 minute warm-ups leading to longer poses up to an half hour. A little egg timer gives a feeble ring at each session's end.


I grabbed a batch of papers and rag boards from my studio that were colored with left-over oil or acrylic paints. I've got loads of them in various textures.

The model's prop cane lent a theatrical aspect to some of the poses. And to play a bit I invented an imaginary boudoir setting behind the reclining nude. That was the lengthiest pose at 35 minutes.