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2nd figure drawing class at the ASL – David’s (the model) long pose
My 2nd evening of classes at the Art Student’s League was last night. (Boy am I tired at work today!) Once again the format was to sketch some quick 2 and 5 minute poses just to capture the gesture and shapes. Some of these are below. I didn’t get a chance to take photos of all quick sketches, but you get the idea.
I was also given home work to do a “gray-scale” (below). I was pretty happy with it although I thought I was using Payne’s Gray and in fact I was using Perylene Green. I realized I was using the green after a short while. I think it’s because W & N now have those tubes of watercolor paint that are silver and you can’t read what color it is. I need to write an irate letter to W & N’s marketing department and ask WHAT WERE YOU THINKING????
Who can read this tube of paint? (NO ONE, THAT’S WHO!)
Finally, for no reason at all, here’s a picture my brother took of a guy running in the park. His t-shirt says:
I may need this shirt.
I signed up for three watercolor figure drawing classes at the NYC Art Students League with Naomi Campbell (the artist, not the model). This was the first time I did figure drawing in at least 35 years. (When I was around 3 years old.)
Naomi only wants you to work in one color, no drawing first, no outlining with the brush. Just use a wash of color to capture the largest shapes first. We did a number of 1 and 2 minute poses and then a few thumbnails of short poses. Then a long pose. The painting above was the long pose. The ones below are the gestural sketches. Naomi told me I used too much paint, which made me laugh because usually I use too little. But she was pleased with my early sketches, and thought the top one was ok too, but I had to lighten it up a lot. Class again next Monday night. Very sleepy at work on Tuesday.