High Springs at the Coffee Clutch today
Feb. 13th, 2012 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhiannon_blackQuote of the day: Cézanne rushed foward: 'You wretch! You have upset the pose! You should sit like an apple. Whoever saw an apple fidgeting?' Motionless as that fruit may be, Cézanne was sometimes obliged to leave a study of apples unfinished. They had rotted." (Ambroise Vollard, 1936, on posing for Paul Cézanne.)
Nice day today, sun was out, the sky blue with wispy white clouds. The cold weather snap is done, we'll get to the mid-thirties tonight. That's more than cold enough for me.
I'm a bit irritated with Dan. He mentioned sending out homework to us. And he finally did. Sunday afternoon at around three, if I'm reading the email info right.
Is he joking? How much headway does he expect us to make on it by tomorrow morning at 9:00?
He actually had to correct me on Thursday--"that's pretty good but you need to move the foot over." What? What? Oh, damn! I had done a vertical and roughly lined up the foot but didn't verify as the drawing progressed. A quarter inch, that's all it was off, not a huge glaring error but glaring enough, wrong is wrong. But arrgh.
I hadn't gotten enough sleep the two nights before, for whatever reason (doing the "foot" homework was only part of it). I think that led to some of my problems last Thursday. I just couldn't seem to get the gesture right. I struggled. We did three quick poses. The last had the bad foot placement. I was, well desperate is too strong a word but I'll use it, desperate to get something, anything done, right. Desperate and pissed off. I hated the sketch when I was in class but think it's one of the best I've done. Maybe it doesn't look properly like Aubrey, who knows, but it's good. More forcely, less tentative, stronger, more confident.
I've decided that, in addition to getting enough sleep, I'll do some gesture before class to warm up.
Nice day today, sun was out, the sky blue with wispy white clouds. The cold weather snap is done, we'll get to the mid-thirties tonight. That's more than cold enough for me.
I'm a bit irritated with Dan. He mentioned sending out homework to us. And he finally did. Sunday afternoon at around three, if I'm reading the email info right.
Is he joking? How much headway does he expect us to make on it by tomorrow morning at 9:00?
He actually had to correct me on Thursday--"that's pretty good but you need to move the foot over." What? What? Oh, damn! I had done a vertical and roughly lined up the foot but didn't verify as the drawing progressed. A quarter inch, that's all it was off, not a huge glaring error but glaring enough, wrong is wrong. But arrgh.
I hadn't gotten enough sleep the two nights before, for whatever reason (doing the "foot" homework was only part of it). I think that led to some of my problems last Thursday. I just couldn't seem to get the gesture right. I struggled. We did three quick poses. The last had the bad foot placement. I was, well desperate is too strong a word but I'll use it, desperate to get something, anything done, right. Desperate and pissed off. I hated the sketch when I was in class but think it's one of the best I've done. Maybe it doesn't look properly like Aubrey, who knows, but it's good. More forcely, less tentative, stronger, more confident.
I've decided that, in addition to getting enough sleep, I'll do some gesture before class to warm up.
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