Artist
First time I had a transgender model today at the Art Students League. There was nothing extraordinary about her, but I did find she was difficult to draw, I wonder if it’s because she had some odd proportions because she was born a male?
It’s Free Thursdays at the Montclair Art Museum again! They had a great new exhibit, Kara Walker: Virginia’s Lynch Mob and other works as well as an exhibition looking at Identity in America. We have a returning model in some great outfits for the open-sketch studio, and one of the little girls, Tessa in attendance posed for us too!
Same model as yesterday, really great poses again, but couldn’t capture a lot of them quite as well as yesterday’s session. Last pose she was upside-down, so it was kind of weird drawing her like that and trying to get a likeness. Experimented with some shapes for her face, but it didn’t end up as a good likeness either.
Another great model today, reminded me of Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia with her hair in two small buns. Lots of short dynamic poses. No Full-color portrait at the end though, this one just worked out really well as a sepia tone drawing.
Great to be back at Open Sketch afternoons at the Art Students League, after a two week break as the League was prepping for the new semester.
Had one of my favorite models, with the great full beard. This was the short pose side of the studio, but the monitor did a series of twenty minute poses.
We had a great model today, fairly well built older gentleman with terrific, dynamic poses and a great big bushy beard and mustache.
Art Students League Open Sketch Session
The sketch above is of the long pose model. My angle for the short pose wasn’t great, and I looked over to see what the long pose folks were doing and loved the sublime pose.
All the other drawings in this session were from the short pose model:
