{"id":690,"date":"2009-09-17T23:52:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T04:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2014-12-15T00:25:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T05:25:33","slug":"pregnant-pose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/pregnant-pose\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Pose"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Seaborne,

Seaborne, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Claudia Citkovitz is a Staten Island based acupuncturist<\/a> with a specialty in childbirth and delivery.\u00a0 Recently she arranged for me to make some sketches that she may use in promotional or educational materials.\u00a0 One of Claudia’s friends and clients posed for the drawings above and below.\u00a0 These two are a kind of yin and yang of the pregnant figure.\u00a0 Above, the relaxed body is treated like a landscape, while below the standing body actively projects its fertility.\u00a0 The extra weight in the abdomen often seems to cause a compensatory drawing back of the shoulders, giving many a standing pregnant figure a proud air.<\/p>\n

\"Stride,

Stride, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Several years ago I painted a pregnant belly at a music festival, emphasizing the aqueous and ovoid elements of the condition:<\/p>\n

\"Belly

Belly Crescent, 2001, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Another festival painting of a pregnant torso, expressing the flourishing life force:<\/p>\n

\"Garden,

Garden, 2007, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

I also had the opportunity to do a full body painting on a pregnant woman.\u00a0 Here is the earthiest manifestation of the human body, in one of the most grounded poses:<\/p>\n

\"Fertile

Fertile Structure, 2001, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

This is an intuitive painting responding to the sensation of life energy coalescing within, as in the fetal image in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Supine,

Supine, 2001, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Side,

Side, 2001, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2007, Shifra, one of the renowned artist’s models on the New York scene, posed for a drawing session at Figureworks Gallery at about eight months pregnant. The roundness of the pregnant form is quite unlike the roundness of obesity.\u00a0 The skin of the swelling belly and breasts is drum-tight.\u00a0 The entire body is surging with life-force and all the muscles are toned.<\/p>\n

\"Shifra

SG pregnant pencil sketch 01, 2007, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Below, the sharp angle of the elbow balances the rounded belly.<\/p>\n

\"Shifra

SG pregnant pencil sketch 02, 2007, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Poses that show both the back and the belly convey the strength and vigor that a pregnant woman emanates so strongly.<\/p>\n

\"Shifra

SG pregnant pencil sketch 03, 2007, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Shifra

SG pregnant pencil sketch 04, 2007, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Shifra

SG pregnant pencil sketch 05, 2007, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

This pose has great openness and an upward thrust that convey the vigor of the life force burgeoning within.<\/p>\n

\"Shifra

SG pregnant crayon sketch 01, 2007, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

The side reclining pose, viewed from above, is a rarely seen view.\u00a0 I had to stand, balancing my large drawing board against my belt with one hand, to draw this angle:<\/p>\n

\"Shifra

SG pregnant crayon sketch 02, 2007, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

A few months later, Shifra returned to pose with her child.<\/p>\n

\n

\"SG

SG and child pencil sketch 05, 2008, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"SG

SG and child crayon sketch 01, 2008, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, a baby won’t hold still for a portrait.\u00a0 This is one of the many situations where speed is an important asset for an artist.<\/p>\n

\n

\"SG

SG and child pencil sketch 03, 2008, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"SG

SG and child pencil sketch 06, 2008, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

\"SG

SG and child crayon sketch 02, 2008, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

The pregnant figure and the baby are both constructed around predominantly round forms.\u00a0 Both share a quality of growth so concentrated it seems to color the air around them, but the baby has a vulnerability in contrast to the pregnant woman’s manifest power.<\/p>\n

The crayon drawings here are all 50 x 70 cm, aquarelle crayon on paper, and the pencil drawings are in 14″ x 17″ (35.5 x 43 cm) sketchbooks.<\/p>\n

One of my large scale drawings, of a pregnant couple, is seen at the bottom of this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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