Arriving home last evening after attending Claudia's life-drawing in Monmouth I sat down and emailed her. I just had to say thank you ASAP. I was clearly on a high. Still am this morning. So here is my email to her, and the two drawings referred to.
Hello Claudia,
Thanks for tonight!
Firstly for including the revolving pose, which I have done a
number of times, as I see it as part of my cubism. Yet, this time, I was
able to add an extra ingredient by including the four 'sides' at different
scales. Not my intention, at all, so don't know where that came from. But
it was a fascinating departure from what I anticipated.
Then came your most inventive idea of maintaining part of the pose as a constant but changing the other half thro' a number of alternative postures. This, for me, has caused a breakthrough moment in my life-drawing journey. I love it when this happens. It is what I live for.
The reason I keep going over to Stroud is that the norms of
the traditional pose are removed and the path to encouraging
an individual response in the artist is set up. This evening has been one
of those very rare occasions where this has occurred elsewhere. So a
huge thank you to you.
I've just put my two drawings on the wall and have been sitting in front
of them, trying to understand how they came about (I rarely do this so soon
after a session) I can clearly see that some aspects are part of an evolving
continuum, but there are others which will only be understood within the
context of what appears on my paper in the coming months.
Best wishes
Bob
I am using a fine-liner pen in each hand to start with, then emphasising with a 4B graphite pencil. I love to click on each image and then move it around with my fingers to enlarge and explore the details of my mark-making. I still get excited when discovering my exploratory and contrasting marks. Drawn on 220gsm cartridge paper A1 portrait format.
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