We kicked off a new semester of figure drawing at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at CMU with model Tiffany.
Her beautiful poses got us back into the flow of drawing with a series of gestures.
We began by turning our charcoals on their sides and drawing with big, swoopy marks and lines.
We changed to a more abstract approach, and created 5-line drawings, allowing ourselves only 5 lines to tell the story of Tiffany's pose.
Like a Haiku poem, the limitation of lines forced each artist to find the most expressive marks possible.
At first, my 5-line drawings felt inept and childish, but soon a flow took over, and I really liked this final one.
All of these gestures prepared us for a beautiful long pose.
Having an inspiring model makes all the difference in the world, and Tiffany's poses swept us away into the joy of drawing an expressive figure. Many thanks to model Tiffany!
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