3rd entry for March 8, 2010

These two poses ended the morning. The standing one lasted 20 minutes and the sitting one was about 40 minutes.
with these, and with the longer studies of R- from the previous week, I feel like I'm edging up against a further level of drawing, with the figure and the surrounding space all well-defined in a fairly short span of time.
Where to go from there becomes the question - do the same at a longer timespan and get more `academic' in appearance? Or to begin to strip things out of the space, or the figure, and draw more selectively. Or something else.
As it is, I'm quite happy with the quality of light in these, but worry about veering into a more taxidermic academicism if I don't watch myself.

2nd entry for April 26, 2009

These are two 15-minute sitting poses and a 10-minute standing one. In the more straddling pose, the amount of reflected light is such that it gives C- a bit of a 'chrome-plated' effect. I would have been better off cutting down the brightness of one of the light sources.

4th Entry for December 20, 2008

The evening finished with some 15-minute poses. G- 's poses were all strong, and the lighting worked ot well from my vantage point.