Once again after our break I tried doing a set of 1-minute gesture sketches to fit random intervals I had already set down on the page, as a drawing challenge. Following that below are two 15-minute poses.
While three of us were drawing those, Mark was getting more worried as he got updates on people surrounded at the corner of Queen and Spadina being held in the rain - a fairly heavy rain that had diminshed the number of whistles we were hearing from outside.
In spite of the genuinely troubling events, Z- was working hard to keep the mood productive & focused where we were, doing some good poses, and trying not to stoke the fires of anxiety.
The lowest study was a half-hour one that wrapped up the evening. I had located some lost-and-found umbrellas, and the remaining drawers and Z- headed due west to Bathurst without pause, feeling safer as we left the hot spot behind. We wished each other well when Z and I reached my studio, and Mark and one other drawer headed off. Transit was running again, which was good.
It was definitely a time unlike most I've ever experienced, when just walking downtown felt like it could possibly land you in jail or see you held for hours. Not a good feeling.
...That time has now passed, and things are calmer. No threats on July 26-28th, but there is a once-a-year opportunity to spend 3 days focusing in on the sculptural aspects of drawing bodies in space, at a workshop I am teaching at the TSA called "Structural Bodies".
From 9 a.m to 4 p.m on each of those days, medium to long poses will supply the opportunity to analyse the figure as volumes in space, and to interpret that using blocks, tubes, ovoids and such, and through cross-contour marks/cross-sections. The thinking that goes into that is a component of drawing foreshortened poses like the reclining ones of Z- here.
For other examples of the kind of studies we'll be doing, click on the tag below for "structural drawing:. To contact the TSA to register, you can get details and contact info here.
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