So the plan of action was clear and well thought through. The new model for the life drawing class was male and so I should work on my male nude drawing – check. All going to plan then I get to the class and I find we have a female model, who I’ve worked with before, and suddenly all my plans feel by the way side. The second things was the tutor suggested using something I wasn’t prepared for and really the night didn’t work out the way way I wanted.
For me I just want to draw, with either charcoal or pastel, and when I can’t do this I start to flounder a bit as I need time to think about these things and of course in a 2 hour session, time is something you just don’t have. In the end I gave up on the whole process and returned to what I wanted to do – draw. However, whether I wasn’t in the mood or the whole watercolour experiment had thrown me I don’t know. The only meaningful piece of work I produced was this and I feel that this is more a drawing of a dead body than a reclining nude. This will always be my memento mori.
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