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Give Me a Minute or Two

Friday, January 22, 2010

A typical traditional life drawing class starts with quick poses, one or two minutes each, and then proceeds to progressively longer poses.  Some people call quick poses “warm-ups”, reflecting the idea that a drawing session is like a workout.  For the artist, responding as quickly as possible limbers up the hand-eye coordination.  For the model, [...]

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B-Sides

Thursday, January 7, 2010

The front of the body has most of the major focal points, so we tend to think of the back as secondary and less interesting.  We tend to want to face others, so the back of the body is unseen, like the far side of the moon.  Here’s a selection of my drawings of nude [...]

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Opening the Closed Pose

Friday, October 30, 2009

Some figurative artists dislike “closed” poses, and complain when the models take these positions.  They may feel the models are shutting them out.  The face and soft frontal torso are hidden, and the back becomes a protective shell, as in the defensive balling-up of a hedgehog or armadillo, or a turtle retreating into its shell.  [...]

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Pregnant Pose

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Claudia Citkovitz is a Staten Island based acupuncturist with a specialty in childbirth and delivery.  Recently she arranged for me to make some sketches that she may use in promotional or educational materials.  One of Claudia’s friends and clients posed for the drawings above and below.  These two are a kind of yin and yang [...]

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Anatomical Flux

Monday, May 18, 2009

Last week I attended “Sketch Night” at “Bodies: The Exhibition“, at the South Street Seaport in New York.  This is one of those exhibits of real human cadavers, preserved by a process called plastination or polymer preservation, and variously dissected for educational display to the general public.  The Sketch Nights give artists access to the [...]

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