{"id":729,"date":"2009-10-05T23:57:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T04:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2014-12-14T21:33:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T02:33:36","slug":"me-as-seen-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Me As Seen By"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Fred

Fred Hatt, 2008, by Jean Marcellino<\/p><\/div>\n

I regularly post my drawings of others here.\u00a0 This post is about other artist’s images of me.\u00a0 The rendering above is by Jean Marcellino<\/a>, a master of the light and shadow technique using chalk, charcoal, graphite and sanguine.\u00a0 I think she really captured my expression.<\/p>\n

Jean often comes to draw at the Monday morning session at Spring Studio<\/a>, for which I serve as monitor.\u00a0 As one of the duties of that position, if our scheduled model is running late, I have to get up on the stand.\u00a0 When the artists are ready to draw, they’re ready to draw, and they’ll settle for me as a model if they have to.\u00a0 Here’s another Spring Studio tardy model substitute sketch of me, from Robin Kappy<\/a>, an artist and psychotherapist:<\/p>\n

\"Fred

Fred Hatt. 2007, by Robin Kappy<\/p><\/div>\n

I think any artist that works with models should experience the other side of the easel.\u00a0 When I decided fifteen years ago to pursue life drawing as a regular practice, I couldn’t really afford to pay for several sessions a week, so I arranged to be a backup model and was able to draw for free on condition of willingness to step in as a nude model as needed.\u00a0 I am sure some of the artists who had shown up because a beautiful girl or strapping adonis was on the model schedule were disappointed when they got me as the stand-in!\u00a0 But for me it was invaluable experience.\u00a0 I learned where the weight, tension, and energy is in action poses, so that later when I was drawing the same poses I could observe them with an inside understanding.\u00a0 I learned the suffering of the long pose – any pose held for a long time involves enduring pain, and the longer it goes on, the sooner the pain comes after each break.\u00a0 These experiences gave me a strong sense of empathy with the models.\u00a0 Not only does this influence me to treat models kindly, but I have come to believe it is a key to making the kind of connection with the subject that makes the drawings come alive.<\/p>\n

Another Spring Studio regular, Karen Collidge<\/a>, pursues her work with a barreling restless energy.\u00a0 She does both figurative and abstract expressionist work, and each type of work feeds the other.\u00a0 Karen has drawn and painted me on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

\"Fred

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

\"Fred

Fred Hatt, July, 2007, by Karen Collidge<\/p><\/div>\n

Here are three sketches Karen made the same day:<\/p>\n

\"Fred

Fred Hatt, December, 2008 #1, by Karen Collidge<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fred

Fred Hatt, December, 2008 #2, by Karen Collidge<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fred

Fred Hatt, December, 2008 #3, by Karen Collidge<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the pleasures of modeling for a drawing class is to walk around the room during the breaks and see oneself as seen by many people, who have radically different ways of perceiving and of expressing their perception.\u00a0 It’s especially striking at a place like Spring Studio, which attracts a wide range of artists who have been trained in different traditions and media, and many of whom have developed their own unique approach through many years of practice.\u00a0 If you had a bunch of photographers shooting the same model in the same poses and the same light, you wouldn’t see nearly the variety.\u00a0 Still, some photographers find ways to make their technological medium unique and personal. \u00a0 St\u00e9phanie de Roug\u00e9<\/a> photographed me in my studio using overlapping exposures with an all-plastic Holga camera, a technique described in this New York Times article<\/a> (with slide show).<\/p>\n

\"Fred

Fred 14, 2008, by St\u00e9phanie de Roug\u00e9<\/p><\/div>\n

St\u00e9phanie alternated shooting me and artwork and objects in my studio environment, letting the images combine on the film without ever knowing exactly how these juxtapositions would manifest until the negative was processed.\u00a0 I appreciate this approach, as I have a great respect for the creative power of randomness.\u00a0 The resulting pictures weave the artist and his work together.<\/p>\n

\"Fred

Fred 15, 2008, by St\u00e9phanie de Roug\u00e9<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fred

Fred 7, 2008, by St\u00e9phanie de Roug\u00e9<\/p><\/div>\n

Marcy Currier<\/a> is an intuitive artist and healer I met at Brushwood Folklore Center<\/a>.\u00a0 She was the model for Seer<\/em>, the last image in my previous post Time and Line.<\/em><\/a> Marcy does chakra portraits in colored pencil, based on her sense of the energy a person radiates from the different facets of their being.\u00a0 The different colors correspond to the spectral associations of the seven energy centers described in the yogic physiology of the energy body.\u00a0 Here the blue color represents creative expression, interpenetrating all other levels of my being.\u00a0 This is a completely different kind of observational drawing!<\/p>\n

\"Fred

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


\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I regularly post my drawings of others here.\u00a0 This post is about other artist’s images of me.\u00a0 The rendering above is by Jean Marcellino, a master of the light and shadow technique using chalk, charcoal, graphite and sanguine.\u00a0 I think she really captured my expression. Jean often comes to draw at the Monday morning session […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[205],"tags":[133,256,254,253,18,255,164,252],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-figure-drawing-portraits","tag-art-modeling","tag-jean-marcellino","tag-karen-collidge","tag-marcy-currier","tag-portraits","tag-robin-kappy","tag-spring-studio","tag-stephanie-de-rouge"],"yoast_head":"\nMe As Seen By - DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Me As Seen By - DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I regularly post my drawings of others here.\u00a0 This post is about other artist’s images of me.\u00a0 The rendering above is by Jean Marcellino, a master of the light and shadow technique using chalk, charcoal, graphite and sanguine.\u00a0 I think she really captured my expression. Jean often comes to draw at the Monday morning session […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-10-06T04:57:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-12-15T02:33:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"fred\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"fred\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"fred\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c298e6b4be9e8bbc43ff45acb35fcc76\"},\"headline\":\"Me As Seen By\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-06T04:57:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-12-15T02:33:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":852,\"commentCount\":4,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Art Modeling\",\"Jean Marcellino\",\"Karen Collidge\",\"Marcy Currier\",\"Portraits\",\"Robin Kappy\",\"Spring Studio\",\"Stephanie de Rouge\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Figure Drawing: Portraits\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/\",\"name\":\"Me As Seen By - DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-06T04:57:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-12-15T02:33:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c298e6b4be9e8bbc43ff45acb35fcc76\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg?fit=436%2C600\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg?fit=436%2C600\",\"width\":\"436\",\"height\":\"600\",\"caption\":\"Fred Hatt, 2008, by Jean Marcellino\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/05\\\/me-as-seen-by\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Me As Seen By\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c298e6b4be9e8bbc43ff45acb35fcc76\",\"name\":\"fred\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3c93755cfac6bb44ec5c819c1d053487f24905ff8021b5ba625999f91590f478?s=96&d=identicon&r=r\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3c93755cfac6bb44ec5c819c1d053487f24905ff8021b5ba625999f91590f478?s=96&d=identicon&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3c93755cfac6bb44ec5c819c1d053487f24905ff8021b5ba625999f91590f478?s=96&d=identicon&r=r\",\"caption\":\"fred\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/\"],\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/fredhatt.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/fred\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Me As Seen By - DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Me As Seen By - DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt","og_description":"I regularly post my drawings of others here.\u00a0 This post is about other artist’s images of me.\u00a0 The rendering above is by Jean Marcellino, a master of the light and shadow technique using chalk, charcoal, graphite and sanguine.\u00a0 I think she really captured my expression. Jean often comes to draw at the Monday morning session […]","og_url":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/","og_site_name":"DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt","article_published_time":"2009-10-06T04:57:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-12-15T02:33:36+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"fred","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"fred","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/"},"author":{"name":"fred","@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c298e6b4be9e8bbc43ff45acb35fcc76"},"headline":"Me As Seen By","datePublished":"2009-10-06T04:57:48+00:00","dateModified":"2014-12-15T02:33:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/"},"wordCount":852,"commentCount":4,"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg","keywords":["Art Modeling","Jean Marcellino","Karen Collidge","Marcy Currier","Portraits","Robin Kappy","Spring Studio","Stephanie de Rouge"],"articleSection":["Figure Drawing: Portraits"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/","url":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/","name":"Me As Seen By - DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg","datePublished":"2009-10-06T04:57:48+00:00","dateModified":"2014-12-15T02:33:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c298e6b4be9e8bbc43ff45acb35fcc76"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg?fit=436%2C600","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jean-marcellino-2008-fred.jpg?fit=436%2C600","width":"436","height":"600","caption":"Fred Hatt, 2008, by Jean Marcellino"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/me-as-seen-by\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Me As Seen By"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/#website","url":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/","name":"DRAWING LIFE by fred hatt","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c298e6b4be9e8bbc43ff45acb35fcc76","name":"fred","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c93755cfac6bb44ec5c819c1d053487f24905ff8021b5ba625999f91590f478?s=96&d=identicon&r=r","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c93755cfac6bb44ec5c819c1d053487f24905ff8021b5ba625999f91590f478?s=96&d=identicon&r=r","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c93755cfac6bb44ec5c819c1d053487f24905ff8021b5ba625999f91590f478?s=96&d=identicon&r=r","caption":"fred"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.fredhatt.com\/blog\/"],"url":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/author\/fred\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}