Bonus entry (June 8, 2014)

I missed posting a number of the rapid studies from the Reverie session.  These are all roughly 15 - 20 seconds, ball-point pen on 12 x 18 paper once I was warmed up. The performers were moving more then, so these are more spontaneous glyphs of pose than any sort of planned or premeditated image. Because of that they can also be the freshest drawings, in their partiality.

2nd entry for June 8, 2014

  Drawing double-bill: on the Sunday evening I went over to Round Venue in Kensington for their monthly Reverie evening. Billed as a `downtempo drawing night', this Reverie had a playground of hoops, silks, sofas and chairs for aerialists to climb and play on.  Performers Katelyn McCulloch,  Emily Hughes, Lindsay Brooke Schlicht and Taliya Cohen were moving, experimenting with silks and holding some poses in what felt like a 30-second to 1-minute range. It's good spontaneity training from the drawing side, and the studies below are a sampling of dozens of ball-point pen sketches on 12 x 18" sheets of various cartridge papers.

3rd Entry for Oct 18, 2010

These are also 5-minute studies of S-   , done on 15 x 12 sheets of cartridge paper. In principle the smaller size should translate into being able to cover more surface. In practice I find I slow down, owing to having to recalibrate my movements to fit the smaller paper, and the pencil makes a smaller mark, and one I have to be more attentive to as I am making them.

1st entry for December 20th, 2009

On the Sunday, it was the psychically calm space for me between recovering from TSA's Open House and diving into Christmas.
T- was back, and the night went fairly well (the part I got there for.) These were 1-minute poses. I like the calligraphic spontaneity of the study where T- is resting on one knee.

1st entry for March 8, 2009

These were some 2-minute studies from the Sunday night at the TSA. R- was working. She is someone I haven't had the opportunity to draw for a couple of years. The short studies were working out quite free and loose that night.

2nd Entry for March 1, 2009

I only made it for the four poses in the morning, but returned in the evening, where I found G- working. These are one 5-minute and four 10-minute poses she did. The drawing was starting to work better at this session.