Figure in movement

Movement and strength - figure study - very big - maybe 90 x 50cms - and charcoal on very heavy grammage of paper.... 2007?

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Jane

Fresh and Wild

Just drawing .. artist and model with reflection and flowers.. charcoal, painted ground, coloured chalk. Very big.  Very Quick. 2007.

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Jane

Mise en Page

I must say quite like this one .. which I fished out while weeding the unruly garden of my old life drawings.. so thought to blog it.. but I cannot remember who it is or when I did it or where... never mind.

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Jane

Strong guy..

A shy model, clearly, but no matter.. what he obviously made us think about was mass and muscle... and given rather a short pose, ten minutes (?) I nevertheless got interested in the complexities of those huge hands and their shadows..  a big drawing, at least A2, done in chalk pastel in 2005 in Nicosia.

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Jane

Memento mori?

A diversion into a drawing from my Academy days in Brussels in which I recognise two hallmarks of that particular studio .. one is our Prof's sadistic liking for setting subjects in or in front of filthy pieces of plastic sheeting - (here delicately interpreted, I must say) and the other is the note of dissonance provided by the skeleton.. just in case we were tempted to turn it into something too pretty..  (model with skeleton, 1998, A2 charcoal pencil on paper)

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Jane

Speed dating ..

A rare chance to do very short poses with two models - double trouble to capture visual information .. don't think .. just draw ..

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Jane

Petra 2

The same nicely curvy model as yesterday's posting,  with Alberto seen at work reflected in the mirror behind her... all that space to fill and I still chopped her foot off... (Chalk pastel on blue paper, A2, 2008)

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Jane

Petra

A chalk drawing made of a pleasingly ample model with reflections in the mirror behind her showing me or one of my colleagues at work... most of my work was on the artist and model theme at the time.
( Chalk pastel on coloured paper, A2, 2008)

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Jane