Osher Figure Drawing with Model Kathryn

Today was the start of a new semester of Figure Drawing classes for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at CMU.  So good to be back at the easel drawing Kathryn and talking with my students!  

We started with 3-minute gestures, moved on to 1-minute abstract 5-line drawings and finished with a 15-minute pose and a 35-minute pose. Kathryn brought us lovely, elegant poses, each one suited for the project at hand.

Kathryn has mastered the art of holding a pose that translates well on the page as a 5-Line drawing.

Kathryn limited the foreshortening in her poses for our gesture warm-ups: