Unusually the Posca pen and graff of last week didn’t work, maybe it’s this model, or just a mood thing…I rarely like to repeat a triumph twice (bit of a problem if you want to develop a voice or dare I say it…a career?) but charcoal and pastels did work, swoop, swoop, swoop.
A sort of Naum Gabo/Duchamp Nude Descending thing going on, serpentine lines which I love mixed with my usual scratchy scratchy Giacometti drawing style (which John quipped she wasn’t thin enough for that – I mean the drawings, not the sculptures!)
It was a revelation and a coming home when I saw his drawings of many lines, I’ve always felt bad about my imprecise technique but immediately realised it wasn’t ‘wrong’, just different.
But I don’t want to stay still…I think next week it’s pencil and dip pen, back to basics. I need to firm up my anatomy and proportion. But I think I’m getting there.
The model always ‘has a rest’ with the last pose being lying down. I’ve not got a thing for prone females, if that’s what you were thinking! It’s just the last few poses are usually the best.
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