Life Drawing

Robert

Thanks to Mark and Homer, life drawing has rolled into action again, and most Sundays see Homer's studio quietly humming along to the sounds of classic radio, the scratch of charcoal and the glorious timer beeping that tells us 'really that 10 seconds you thought you'd just had was really 1 minute/5 minutes/ 10 minutes'. This latter sound usually draws the odd groan of 'I was only just getting somewhere' . . . and yet most of us, when given the option for longer poses, will invariably choose the 3 x 10 minutes rather than one 30 minutes: ostensibly for the ability practice, but, for some of us I'm sure (ie me), because we know a 30 minute hash will be so very much worse in all ways than a 10 minute mess.

We've had a great variety of models: all ages, shapes, stances and levels of experience, from first-timers who've decided to give it a go because they're dancers or artists themselves, to the very experienced girl from Melbourne (seems they have an association/register of life models) who rather non-plussed us all by asking if we preferred naturalist or classical poses . . .

The three sets below are the three most recent sessions, when I've started playing around with hard pastels and different types of line and block work.

More to come, and long may the sessions continue . . .

Robert

Robert

Robert

Fenja

Fenja

Fenja

Alex

Alex