Thursday, 30 June 2016

A typical morning, with a fulfilling experience

Typical in the sense that here I am at Paul Fowler's  'extreme poses' at Pegasus Art in Stroud, with Paul the model up in the ropes for five 30 minute poses. I arrive to find Paul the model up the ladder and hitching up the tensegrity structure. This is the first time, in my recollection,  that the model has directly engaged in setting up and adjusting the performance matrix.
I had no plan for the morning in mind. No conscious strategy. But I had spent time reflecting on my last few drawings (as recorded in my last few postings). I now feel that I can draw, I now feel that I do not have to think about 'composition on the paper', I now feel that I can freely engage with a number of issues which fascinate me, I now feel a freedom from previous constraints which may have inhibited my evolutionary life-drawing path.
Today, my five drawings are representative of 'a process'. Yet each is the outcome of my specific response to each pose. Each translates into a drawing the aspect of the pose which attracted me at the time. I discussed with Paul Fowler what had taken place. He externalised to me, and clarified for me the tentative reactions I was having. In summary, so much took place within the process of which these five drawings are the outcome. For Paul Fowler the outstanding breakthrough, and the new step, was drawing number three.
To start with I post the five drawings in sequence: they start with the first at bottom left, then middle bottom, then bottom right. The fourth is top right, then the last is top left.

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