Figures from last weekend5/17/2013 Last week's model in the life drawing drop-in session created some graceful poses. The painting above was from one of the longer poses. I enjoyed developing the negative space and also pulling a little color into the figure itself. Tomorrow I attend another session. The constant practice at drawing the figure keeps me from getting rusty in my approach. It's somewhat like practicing scales on the piano. It's also very satisfying. ![]() Here I was experimenting with placing a dark space only on one side of the figure. Most of the time I work both sides behind the model, in order to create dimension. For me, the negative tone makes the figure sculptural. ![]() One of the longer poses, also. The model was leaning across a pillow in front of her. I like the square-ish shape of her shoulders and hips as they situated themselves on the page. When I'm working, I'm never sure how the picture will decide to create itself. ![]() Degas kept many sketchbooks in which he mad repeated studies of feet, legs, stance of the body. This is one of his beautiful pastel pieces of a model, after the bath. You can look up his sketchbooks online to see how hard he worked to master the figure.
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