Osher Figure Drawing with Kathryn

We had a wonderful first class of the semester on Friday with model Kathryn.  We began with 2-minute mass gesture drawings.

I invited my students to turn their charcoal on its side and make broad strokes to express the masses within Kathryn's form.  I find this technique a good way to warm up at the beginning of a term.  It also helps us to explore the structure within the body rather than just looking at outside contours.

We added a minute to the gesture poses, and included some contours and shadows to bring definition to our drawings.

Then we changed gears to a more abstract approach, and chose 5 lines to represent Kathryn's 1-minute poses.

Now that we were warmed up, we worked on some longer studies.

It was wonderful to be back to drawing, and to have Kathryn's fantastic poses to keep us creating!