This fall in order to try to stretch my creative chops, I took a semester long Life Drawing class. The last time I did this was a hundred years ago in college and it took some time to get used to the messiness and loveliness of working with charcoal again. Each week we had a different model, all shapes and sizes and drew for over 2 hours.
I loved it. I’d leave each class covered in charcoal dust. I do think it was helpful for me to do something away from fabric and get back to looking and drawing again.
I have some ideas brewing on how to integrate elements of these drawings into my next fiber piece…we’ll see.
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Tags: inspiration, Process, sketching
February 1, 2017 at 11:38 pm |
I took a course after 50 years and I understand trying to get it back. My course was a still life nothing so challenging as life drawing. It’s back to practice, practice. Like the challenge.