2nd Entry for Sept. 10, 2010

  

These were a 5-minute and two 15-minute poses, which closed off my evening.  M- was as good as usual, but it took me 'til the latter half to get past drawing his head.

3rd entry for April 7, 2009

These were all in the 20-minute range. The drawing was going well that night, which it usually does with J- working. The standing pose was strong, I felt, but the standout was the reclining figure. It's still far from perfect, but it is dramatic & pictorially interesting.
The head on the study sitting on the stool is weakly drawn,and a poor likeness, but the rest of it was acceptable enough to post, I feel.

3rd entry for February 8, 2009

There was, as usual, a 3-hour pose in the afternoon at TSA on the Sunday.
I was a bit surprised to find that Z- was working with I- , on a 2-figure pose. It was interesting, though, and once again the dynamics of two people, one undressed, one partially dressed was striking. This was the inverse of B- and his partner G- a couple of weeks back.

I- was stationed at one end of the couch, and Z- was my main focus, and I decided letting I- run out of the frame would have some drama to it. it was tricky drawing half of him. The drawing was done with 20 minutes to spare, so I used the remaining time to start a study of I- 's head, as I was feeling a little badly about marginalising him in the composition. Some of I - 's art and photography can be found on his website - check it out.

Entry for Jan 8. 2009

I only got out to the tail end of a Thursday night session at the TSA where G- was working. The shading was confident, but proportions were a little slippy in places.

These are, top to bottom, a 15-, 20- , and a 25- minute study.

I was impressed by her stamina in maintaining the 20-minute pose in particular. The stress was making a lot of muscles show in her back.

3rd Entry for December 3, 2008

These were 15-minute poses. I have always been fond of poses with extreme foreshortening.