Z- tipped me off that the Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School sessions were re-opening for this summer as a last hurrah encore. It kicked off with a free special session at which I was able to secure a seat.
The model for the night was M- , a member of the Boylesque burlesque troupe.
As usual, the Sketchy's sessions involved all the regular challenges of pose, gesture, character, plus some striking outfits and wigs. All in a space filled with the extra distraction of dance music and multi-tracked chatter all around. I find it an extra-challenging setting to draw in because of all that - to find a still space from which to draw in the sensory stimulus storm.
But maybe that is to miss part of the point. Maybe there's something to letting the storm of music and visuals carry me, to let go of the desire to control the image's development and display technical proficiency, and see what emerges from that. That happens to some degree in the gesture poses like these.
These were some (generous) 1-minute poses. Done with hard compressed charcoal on 18 x 24" cartridge paper.
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