LIFE DRAWING & SALSA
I’ve been learning to salsa dance since September…there are a striking number of parallels: being in a life drawing class to being in a salsa class…for a start - there is nowhere to hide! It’s raw, and immediate…it requires you to be vulnerable, to trust your partner and all the learning that has gone before… Life drawing is also a collaboration, between you and the model. Your aim is to capture emotion, convey a feeling, dance to the beat: draw the figure, but with expression and feeling and flair. You have to be present- in the moment…It makes you feel everything that it is to be alive.
Our model for these first two poses was transgender. My attempts here to capture her extreme vulnerability, bravery and contemplation.
Still one of my favourites this one.
The following are 25 minute poses in pastels…
5-25 minute poses in charcoal