Saturday, May 12, 2012

Body in Motion

Drawn from life, charcoal on 18"x24" paper.   Gestures.

One of my favorite life drawings.

Even though lovely model and good drawing needn't go together, in this case it all worked for me, and I had a big enough piece of paper to capture my response.


The charcoals in this are mixed, some soft willow that I wiped a bit to produce the shadowy figures, some harder charcoal stick and some sharpened charcoal pencil.

13 comments:

  1. This is wonderful Jean. You are showing one great figure drawing/painting after another. What I like about this one is the background nudes give the paper a crumbled look. I had to look closer to see that the gray lines were actual figures. Frame this one up too.

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  2. Great shapes. I’m imagining the session, the gesture in each pose, a favorite time, spending only moments on the various shapes.

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  3. I think it's one of my favorites too. Brilliant.

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  4. Yeah, this is great. I almost always prefer color; I don't like crowds or a lot of commotion. So you offer up a busy, busy jumble of activity in black and white, and it just jumps out at me, almost scares me the way a movie might. Not only do I like it, but I find it very weird and don't know enough about art to explain it. But thanks for showing this! Very impressive. Good title too.

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  5. I love this piece, Jean, although scrolling through your recent posts, I love all your work. You're so incredibly talented.

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  6. like that little slippage of a person in the upper center of the page

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  7. Thank you, all.

    Anthony, even though lovely model and good drawing needn't go together, in this case it all worked for me, and I had a big enough piece of paper to capture my response.

    The charcoals in this are mixed, some soft willow that I rubbed out a bit to produce the shadowy bits, some harder charcoal stick and some sharpened charcoal pencil.

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  8. Favorite, indeed. There's a Munch litho in my family, and though yours is entirely original, the two have similarities in line and motion.

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  9. Thanks, AH. I hadn't thought of Munch; all I've seen of him are a few pieces in museums and the scream images. I'm googling him.

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  10. "I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of Man's urge to open his heart." Edvard Munch

    From the wikipedia article on Edvard Munch. Fascinating story.

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  11. great work jean with very beautiful moevement. I found you via Jane and What I see is very beautiful and handsome work. To paint so loose is marvelous. Love it.
    Warm greet Marja

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