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Exercising Perception

Sunday, June 20, 2010

 Your ability to draw what you see is limited by your ability to see.  Vision is not simply a mechanical process that is naturally perfect.  Seeing takes place more in the brain than in the eyes, and it can be transformed and expanded by serious practice, just like any other skill that involves the interaction [...]

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Top Ten Countdown

Monday, March 15, 2010

Today, March 15, 2010, this blog turns one year old.  (Above, the first illustration from the first post, “Variations”.) I have long shared my work with others largely through underground, alternative, and community-based venues.  In many ways, the blog has been my ideal gallery – virtually cost-free, accessible to all both near and far, open [...]

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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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