Whether you choose flowers, vegetables, pets, sweeping majestic landscapes... practice, that pesky repetition, is the only way that the magic of your subject will reveal itself to you. Seduction is a necessary art ....within art... well, in so very many aspects of life. (it is simply a coincidence that this is the image going along with these words, I haven't been working on lemons recently...)
These sketches are references for sketches in other mediums. For these I used washes in oil paints. But I can use them for the pose and gesture, add clothes, add different props. That is why it is good to have the original drawing from the model. 
I have included this one because I really like it and... it has a contribution by the creative or is it just curious, CAT...
3 (continued from the previous post) Libido. Like an appetite. Like you are starving, suffocating, dying of thirst without it.
This is a very important part of the practice. Whetting the appetite of desire to create. Finding that ironic, paradoxically exquisite balance -on the edge of hunger and satiation. Knowing...
What does that for you?
Wonder post teacher...
ReplyDeleteSeriously, it's a beautiful journey because we only want to show perfection and not share the steps...the evolution...the change...and the vision.
This post goes well with what I am trying to do in my art course: figures and draping of clothing. Alas, I don't have the patience to repetitively keep drawing the same thing over and over. A live model might help a bit, but that is hard to come by here. My husband is too self-conscious and my daughter has less patience than I, I think. Love your figures though and that last is marvelous. I'm coming to recognize Earthula's style.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful figure work- I love how you pose with ease your models . Wonderful natural and unaffected style!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work. Yes, Hubbards market and Lunenburg market run through October. such a fabulous time to visit. Look forward to meeting you. Anna
ReplyDeleteHi Elaine - these studies and practice are wonderfully loose and intriguing. Necessary work - all the same, something I don't do enough of...thanks for the post - it reminds me.
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