Two Models again at Life Drawing class 26 May 2010

At this class I think we all benefitted from our new model's clothes, tight clothes with seams and multiple wrinkles where she bent. These provided reference points: dividing lines and defined left and right areas

Janice

Sonia

Bill

Anne

Bill

Stewart

Sonia

John

Stewart

Sonia

Anne

John

Esther, a new member of the class

Two Models at Life Drawing Class, 19 May 2010

Anne

At last Wednesday's life drawing class we had two models as Georgia brought along her niece, Elena, to see if she would like to model. She posed for us clothed as the last pose of the night.
The drawing above is by Anne and she had a breakthrough with this drawing and we were all very happy with her as she had had a tendency to get lost in detail on faces and go way out of proportion in her work.
There's a fine line in drawing between not thinking and being in the right brain zone and also flipping back to the left brain to keep an eye on not letting old habits creep in and turning back to right brain mode straight away -- just using the left brain for quick checks and then back to the right brain drawing dream mode.
It requires discipline as once in right brain drawing dream mode one does not want to leave. It's so nice in there. . .
Make sense? Don't know about you but I'm confused....

John

Janice

Robyn

Robyn

Stewart

Bill

Robyn

Sonia

Stewart

Anne

John

John

Sonia

John

Waihi Life Drawing Class 12 May 2010

At this weeks life drawing class Sandra introduced some drawing exercises of a very fast and free nature, blind contour drawing, 15 second poses and left hand drawing and etc. Good fun..

Waihi Life Drawing Class 5 May 2010

We have had a clothed model, Hannah, for 3 weeks now. It will be back to the nude this week as I have one beginner in the class who I wish to show the skeleton to.
My favourite teaching method is to show the skeleton as structural engineering working against gravity. Deeply superficial n'est pas?
We have fun playing with different ways of looking at the human body.