3rd entry for Oct 22, 2013

These are three 5-minute studies above,  two 10-minute ones below that, and a 15-minute pose at bottom. The top five are done with a Pitt medium point marker and some Pentel brushpen, on 18 x 24"sheets of Canson XL Drawing paper.
THe bottom one is done with water-soluble graphite on 18 x 24" 150 lb. Maidstone rag paper, with some additional graphite shading added later.

2nd entry for Oct 22, 2013

These are four 3-minute studies above, and two 5-minute ones below, done on 18 x 24"sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.  Zita was in character while posing as a clown she is developing, and she had a lot of expression while posing, in stilts - up in the air. Which is pretty hardcore, when you think about it.

1st entry for Oct 22, 2013

On the Tuesday afternoon, it was Zita on stilts at Diane's Drawing Room aerial/circus session. These are some 1-minute, 2-minute and 3-minute studies. All are done with a Pitt calligraphy tip marker on 18 x 24" sheets of paper;  cartridge paper for the top five, and Canson Recycled Sketch paper for the lower three.

6th entry for May 4, 2009

These were two 10-minute poses and a 15-minute one that ended the evening.

5th entry for May 4, 2010

These were 5-minute studies. As a by-product of his work as an actor doing physical theatre and such, K- had a particuarly well-defined musculature, and that remaibs something I don't come across that often.
I was talking to one of the other drawers, and we were both torn a bit between drawing the whole scene, and focussing in on getting details of K- . Moreover, his stilts themselves were interesting semi-prosthetic oblects. Mostly I only suggested them, so for one pose I decided just to try to draw the stilts themselves.
Several of us concurred later that the combination of elements made this evening one of the most challencing in reconciling the time available to the drawing produced.

4th entry for May 4, 2010

These were 3-minute poses.

3rd entry for May 4, 2010

These were 2-minute poses. As K- was explaining, part of the process of being on stilts is staying in motion - like a bicycle, once a direction is established, one moves with that.
Keeping still is the toughest: it would be like balancing upright on an unmoving bicycle. The altered centre of gravity adds to the challenge of finding balance on two pads smaller than a foot, and where added height magnifies any imbalances. So these poses entail him finding some third point of support.

2nd entry for May 4, 2010

These were 1-minute poses that K- took.

1st entry for May 4, 2010

On the Tuesday I was back at Dianes studio, and this time it was K- , who is, among other things, a stilt-walker, which was an interesting change of pace.
These were 30-second poses that he did.
30 seconds is not a lot of time to get down anything but essentials of a pose. People in the GTA area who yearn for the luxury of long poses, ones with some narrative and symbolic aspects to them, should come join the 5-day intensive course I'll be teaching next week at the Toronto School of Art. It's called "Body Politics", and each day will feature a 5-hour long extended pose. You can reach the TSA via their website here

6th Entry for November 27th

These were 2 10-minute poses at the very end of the evening.

5th Entry for November 27th

These were 5-minute poses that K- took. At that point it was clear that I had enough paper to last out the rest of the night, so the studies are a little looser and more assured by fitting into my preferred scale of drawing. Nevertheless, it was a race to try to set all these down fast enough.