Category Archive: Figure Drawing
| The room was quiet as we drew at Studio b. this week. The model was extraordinary, performing poses during our one-minute and three-minute warm-up period that would have taxed an accomplished yogi. We warmed up with gesture drawings for about half an hour, before drawing a few 10 and 20 minute poses, and then finally a ... |
| After warming up with two-minute, 5-minute, and 20 minute drawings, I spent the last hour of the figure drawing session drawing the model clothed, in her blue jeans and her brightly colored shawl. I had noticed her shawl when she first arrived. I was the only artist this week, braving the rainy weather, so I had my choice of pose ... |
| The activities of my life are an extension of who I am right now, and so the amount of time I have available to devote to my art is limited. Knowing that I have made that choice does not stop me from sometimes resenting it. I have a full-time job, owning and managing a small service business, and I have ... |
| Last week I didn’t draw, except for my practice at home. Instead I watched and listened to a lot of live music at the 30A Songwriters Festival, which I blogged about in my last post. And last Friday I attended a yoga presentation on the Root Chakra, the first in a 7-week series, a subject which is all new to ... |
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| This week I started setting up my studio for painting. It’s been a long time since I did any significant painting, especially in oils, which is what I intend to use, for the most part. I have some ancient paints, which I think will be adequate while I re-acquaint myself with color mixing.
I well-remember the elements and principles of composition. ... |
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We worked hard at Studio b. last night at the weekly figure drawing session. I had very mixed emotions, knowing that I have made a decision to start painting in the coming year, and the likelihood that it will be landscapes rather ... |
| Sometimes the artists will talk during the breaks between the longer poses at the figure drawing sessions at Studio b. This week we touched on the purpose of our lives, parallel universes, and the annihilation of the solar system that is going to happen in a zillion years. I have to confess, I have never lain ... |
| I’m spread thin right now. I often have to give up one thing in order to do another. I wish I could work up the nerve to become a full-time artist. When I start to paint, it will be another step in that direction. Whether it takes me another 10 years, or if it happens tomorrow, something is going to ... |
| On this night at Studio b. at the regular weekly figure drawing session, I was the only artist who exclusively draws the figure. David Orme-Johnson brought his watercolor paints, and Nancy Nichols Williams brought her acrylics. Steve Wagner also is an accomplished figure painter, although on this night he worked with charcoal and white on brown ... |
| The model couldn’t make it to Studio b. for our figure drawing session this week, so the owner of the Studio, Colleen Duffley, graciously offered us her time, posing clothed for us. When the artist knows the model, it seems important to try to be accurate in the drawing, for the sake ... |
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