1st entry for January 31, 2010

It was Sunday night, and G- was working. These were 1-minute studies. I like the `calligraphic' quality of the lines in these ones. They also come closer to the Nicolaides idea of gesture: that it doesn't matter so much if others can understand them, as long as they have meaning and resonance to the person who set them down.

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.