First Osher Class with Hector

Our Osher Figure Drawing term began last Friday, and we were fortunate enough to have Hector as our model.  

We began with 2-minute mass gesture poses to warm up.  We swept the side of our charcoal over the page to express the forms of Hector's body.  We moved on to 3-minute poses, adding several descriptive contour lines to the smoky silhouettes.

Changing to a more abstract approach, we played with using only 5 lines to capture Hector's 1-minute poses.

And finished up with a 15-minute pose:

And a long pose of nearly an hour.  Hector had brought along a beautiful woodland scene backdrop, and some silk flowers, inspiring us to imagine him as the King of the Forest.

A delightful morning spent swept away into the Zen of figure drawing.  Many thanks to model Hector!