Tuesday, February 3, 2009

4th Entry for January 29, 2009





Two stretched-out 3-minute poses and a 5-minute one sitting up. I was struck throughout with A- 's core strength, holding herself rigid for long periods. She remarked to someone at break that she hasd been doing gymnastics since childhood.

A topic of conversation with a couple of the other drawers was Nicolaides' book "The Natural Way to Draw", and gesture drawing as a looser process. A remark I recall frm Nicolaides was how even a piece of fabric has a `gesture' to the way it hangs. Some of these studies do a better job of showing the gesture of the silks, taut against a body, but hanging more loosely below.

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