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Givens and Options

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

In an open life drawing session, the givens are simple:  There is a live nude model, who will take a pose and hold still for a designated period of time.  Using the materials of visual art, we must draw what we can from the model during the interval allowed.  Over a series of sessions, we can [...]

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In the Flow

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

A drawing or painting is an object, an arrangement of marks on a surface, inert and mute.  So what do we mean when we speak of a picture having dynamism or tension, energy or lyricism?  There could be multiple factors.  Movement may be pictorially implied.  Shapes and colors may be arranged in ways that suggest [...]

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The Body Contemplated

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

a person is a bit of this and a bit of that fuzzy tendencies overlapping, interacting forged and scourged in the kiln of embodied life   eyes ions, black magnetic pools   zone in on tones undertone, overtone, midtone let the parts fall where they may   body takes a beating just doing the day [...]

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Oddities of the Anatomium

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Most figurative artists spend some time studying human anatomy – basic musculoskeletal structure, often just enough that your Spider-Man doesn’t come out looking like Popeye.  But of course the study of anatomy is a vast edifice, with wings and annexes, great halls and obscure corridors, constructed by physicians and yogis, gymnasts and psychiatrists, animators and [...]

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Wax and Water

Sunday, January 8, 2012

A few months ago, I made a change in my regular life drawing practice.  My primary drawing medium for over fifteen years had been Caran d’Ache Neocolor II aquarelle crayons.  Aquarelle means watercolor, and the pigments laid down by these crayons can be thinned or blended with water, but I always used them as a [...]

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