Osher Figure Drawing with Model Hector

 

Last Friday, we were swept away by model Hector, who held elegant, dancerly poses, and inspired us with a dramatic winter set, including a crown & scepter that he created for the long pose.

I invited my students to try wet media this week, suggesting a single color for the gestures, and watercolors for the long pose.

We began with 3-minute gesture poses to warm up, and  I used India ink in two tones. Using the lighter tone, I began with a mass gesture painting, then touched in bolder contours and shadows with undiluted ink.

I experimented with more expressive marks in the last gesture pose.

After our gesture warm-up, we switched to watercolor paints, and practiced mixing skin tones in preparation for the long pose. 

Hector crafted a winter woodland set with a snowy forest floor, blue drifts of fabric, and an inspiring backdrop to sweep us away to the storybook land of the Snow King of the Enchanted Woods.

Note his staff on the far left of the photograph below.

I sketched in the scene using a 2B graphite pencil, then laid in washes of ultramarine blue, pthalo blue, and a skin tone mixed with burnt sienna, cadmium red and touches of raw umber & ultramarine blue.

Many thanks to model Hector for his inspiring performance and set!