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| charcoal on paper 17 x 17cm |
A few weeks ago a circular went around asking if anyone wanted to share the cost of a clothed model to draw, for portraiture. When I finished my Still Red Room pastel, I thought I might like to set up an interior in the studio and possibly hire a person to sit for me in it. Then I went to Maine and now it's open studios so I haven't tackled a new big project yet.
Today I went to this new group. I was hoping that the model would be in a really inspiring setting, wearing wonderful clothes but she was in a portraiture setting. She has a compelling face and the light was beautiful.
I began with charcoal. I haven't drawn a model in this way in years and years. I thought I'd work tonally. It's a three hour drawing session andI was working on the top of my pastel 'table', a box easel with the easel part taken off so I couldn't work on anything big on that. I had brought a few sketchbooks appropriate for life drawing shorter poses. Never mind.
It turns out it doesn't matter how long the pose is. I can begin again in a different way when I'm done. The second drawing was on book pages. Teven, the model, liked that one and took a photo of it. The final drawing was looser and I rearranged the room in my head and thought of Dorothy Eisner.
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| Pastel on book pages 13.5 x 20 cm |
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| pastel on paper 16 x 16 cm |
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