In today's drawing class we worked from a rather entertaining life model (a buxom, elderly French woman, prone to cranky outbursts re: insufficient heating, and her aches and pains). Though my morning sketches were a bit lackluster (matching my inexplicable hangdog mood), things picked up in the afternoon. The pencil sketch was intended as a study in proportion - my use of line is a little 'constraining', but I'm pretty pleased with its general weightiness/dimensionality. The other sketch is in acrylics, which I've never used before. With a limited palette of yellow ochre, black, and white, George asked us to capture the various tones and contours of the body (which I think I've achieved in parts). Being such a quick-drying medium, you have to work extremely quickly - even so, I didn't quite finish this 30 minute study.
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