Donna held a series of warm-up poses and extended 20-minute poses.
Above is a composite drawing, the head being drawn from a frontal pose and the body from a rear pose.
Warm-up drawings.
Some of the drawings in this series remind me of Frederick Franck, The Zen of Seeing (Seeing/ Drawing as Meditation).
I drew this in Trinity Church while listening to Caleb Burhans and Grey McMurray who perform as itsnotyouitsme To think of Franck's analogy of drawing to meditation or being in a church drawing while others are praying - drawing in churches is a good way to draw people and architecture after a day of wandering in the city. Sort of a sanctuary. Applied figure drawing. Here's another church drawing of a painting of Isaiah by Rapheal in Sant'Agostino, Rome:
Raphael's original frescoe looks like this:
This was the last figure drawing class for 2009. Come to Educational Alliance OPEN HOUSE on Thursday, January 7, from 5:30-8 p.m. to meet teachers and learn about classes.
This is a tiny face that Mathew drew in the corner of an 18"x24" sheet of paper about the size of a postage stamp which seems expressive and haunting. We'll end with that.
