2nd entry for June 8, 2012

These are 10-minute and 15-minute studies, done with hard compressed charcoal on 18 x 24" sheets of bond and Canson Recycled Sketch paper.

1st entry for June 8, 2012

On the Friday I was back at the TSA to do some sketching. C-   was working that night, and these are two 5-minute studies and two 10-minute ones, all done with hard compressed charcoal on 18 x 24" sheets of bond paper.

If you want to learn or refresh life drawing skills,  in July and August I'm teaching an 8 week course on beginning life drawing at the Toronto School of Art.
It runs Tuesday nights, 6:30 - 9:30.
For more information, check at the TSA website here.

5th entry for June 5, 2012

These are 10-minute studies, with the same materials as the last post. S-   kept the same ensemble, but I tried reworking it into more horror/fetish  territory for the final image. The direction a model's work suggests and the direction a drawer's imagination goes do not need to overlap, but to S-   's credit, his adopting some costume tweaked other image responses than him posing all undressed, and that's definitely a good thing.

This weekend (June 23 & 24 saw a very enjoyable open house at my downtown Toronto studio.  Thanks to all the people who came to visit. (There will be more, come the fall...)

4th entry for June 5, 2012

These are 5-minute studies; also compressed charcoal on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper. I had mixed responses to S-   's `biblical' wrap. In some poses it afforded a Schiele-y quality to his arm gestures. In others I liked the man-skirtiness it had.  But as the poses continued, I was getting restless, as that particular narrative notion of old-testament heavy didn't resonate much for me. In the 2nd last study here I skipped almost everything other than his flogger and arm, and in the last one I was beginning to re-imagine his wrap as a hell-raisery straightjacket/corset, with lots of buckles.

3rd entry for June 5, 2012

These are 3-minute (and maybe some 5-minute) studies of S-   .  All are done with hard compressed charcoal on sheets of 18 x 24" Canson Recycled Sketch paper.
 

2nd entry for June 5, 2012

 

To vary things, S-  did further gesture poses in character referencing Holofernes, a mean old-testament general who meets his demise after drunkenly carousing with Judith.  These are 1-minute studies on the same size bond paper.
Trying to incorporate clothing, albeit simple, was a challenge in these very short poses, but it was a good stretch.

1st entry for June 5, 2012

I went back to S-   's drawing session at OCAD U on the following Tuesday night.  He delivered up more dynamic gesture poses. These 1-minute studies are done with hard compressed charcoal on 18 x 24" sheets of bond paper.

`Scribbly' gesture drawing like this is an important aspect of how I teach life drawing.
If you want to learn or refresh life drawing skills (including gesture drawing,)  in July and August I'm teaching an 8 week course on beginning life drawing at the Toronto School of Art.
It runs Tuesday nights, 6:30 - 9:30.
For more information, check at the TSA website here.

(A numerical footnote, this is post number 1600 for this blog)