Week 3 - long and short pose live models studies
Because of the Chinese Lunar New Year, I didn't go painting last week. Cleaning up was the major activity, got ready for the New Year. Rain finally stopped, and the news said that there was enough water restored in our area. I only had one three-hour session for the long pose model in the afternoon. Working on an used 16"x20" canvas panel, quickly sketched, than started to put colors on. Even I have been practicing over a year, still certain proportions were not right after the session was finished. I know the challenging part is the correction. Spent extra 6 hours to correct it after. In the evening, we had this African American female model back. She is pretty and tall. Each of her poses was nice, but I never could fit her onto my paper. Just might be that she was very tall, and I was not used to it. Of course I didn't expect I could draw figures super well, maybe someday soon. One thing I have no doubt that practicing helps me to get work done bette