The Geelong Art Society Inc.[ Shearers Arms Gallery ,202 Aberdeen St ., Geelong West 3218 ], hosted a Life Drawing afternoon for 17 Designers from the” Cotton On” clothing company ( 800 shops world wide )…on Friday afternoon july 15th 2011.
I led the group with the theme ” Four Seasons”.. with Zenta modelling for the 4 hour event…Jacinta Leitch and Michele Karakasch organised and made food and Poured wine for the 30 minute break.. The group was moved through a series of 1,5, 15 , and 30 minute poses using Graphite Block on white 150 gsm cartridge paper to create their images. Bill Canty’s” Elysian Peace “added harmony to our experience. After the break, part 2 of the programme was changed on the suggestion of Nick (head of the design team ) , to have a ” progressive life drawing “, …where we each spent a short time , perhaps a minute on our drawing, before progressing to the next persons easle to continue their drawing. I made the time 3 minutes, but in retrospect 1 minute would have made for better drawing…This did not take away the fun we all had…as we made our way around the room to the more lively sounds of tracks from Light House….
What delightful young people to be amongst on this tranquil afternoon.
Life Drawing can be a very meditative and relaxing ……
…….focus, concentration, judging distances ,shapes , spaces….
These boards display photocopies of life drawings of Zenta dating back to 2001 ,
(all drawings [ 5 ] from the first session are on the top of this display board, shown in order).
This arrangement of 5 and 10 minute drawings reveals a variety of technique, moods
and approaches to depicting the human form (all of Zenta 2001 -2011 ).
- Longer poses give us an opportunity to consider scale, proportion, and exploration of rendering techniques.
- Yes, all the one and same lady yet again……This group of people( Cotton On designers) have experienced life drawing at art school,
- 2 to 7 years previously, so this experience felt quite new again for most of them….as all design work nowadays
- is in front of the computer screen….and of their afternoon?,..they expressed satisfaction with their experience of drawing again, enjoyed themselves ,(corporate bonding?) and their better pieces were taken home.
- ——-The End——-
- Below….. 2 stages in drawing John P. (20 minute pose )
With this drawing , the “basic blocking in” with graphite on edge was most important.
Achieving the desired proportions of the figure , be they true to life or exaggerated for the effect , gives me a good foundation.
Whaaallaaaa!!!!………. { Hmmn those hands…. I want to render them a little more }
These little boxes contain on the left 32 photos of paintings I displayed at my recent
43 year retrospective ” Abstracts and Still Lifes ” ( a gift to Zoe Snyder , curator of Karingallery)
and on the right …a Kart of 40 Life drawings (photo size) with examples below.
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