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Back in Gray

Sunday, May 13, 2012

For any artist, I think, regularity of work is essential. For an artist like me who does other work to make a living, it can be very difficult to keep the creative practice vital and central. I hold my life drawing practice as a constant. Sometimes in my life I’m working on special creative projects, [...]

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Collector of Souls: Alice Neel

Friday, March 30, 2012

Alice Neel (1900-1984) is always described as an artist that was slow to find recognition. It’s true, but I think it’s also true that her brilliance was of a kind that is only achieved through maturity and persistence. Our culture likes to think that a genius is a genius, that they must be incandescent in [...]

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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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A Trio of Birthdays

Sunday, March 11, 2012

1. This week, on March 15, Drawing Life turns three years old. 2. Minerva Durham’s Spring Studio, New York’s busy basement of figure drawing and one of the forges of my creative life, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this month. 3. On the 12th, my brother Frank Hatt is celebrating another one of those decade birthdays. [...]

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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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