June 7, 2011

  • The Relationship Between Artist and Model

    Is something I have never experienced before. 

    I arrived first to claim center spot.

    I did not know what to expect.

    Just go with whatever when ever....however...

    I got to mark my spot with colored tape and continue with this person tomorrow.

    I felt something.  Something different than the feeling with an object or photograph...

    (the artist stared at me intently, as I appeared mad, wearing one set of glasses on top of another.  The model assumed this mastabutory pose as is shown I did not DV8 from his postures.. I was 20 minutes early and got to set up and choose my spot.  I chose actually about a few degrees right of center but it was in direct sight line of the model,  I sat up before he posed.)

    I originally positioned myself to the right of the easel and looked at the model between the easel and me then drastically switched sides, realizing,  and it was kind of UNNATURAL feeling, that I needed to really stand on the LEFT, facing the easel with the model between me and the easel, although sometimes the work was in the way and I have to keep stepping to the left.  I need to tell this to the neurologist because I found it uncomfortable and not my normal stance,   although I have always batted left handed for some strange reason when playing baseball as a child. I am dominate right handed in general and eat with both hands comfortably,  often wondering myself which hand I should pick up a utensil with...

    (selfthread unnumbered, ((The FaceBook Logs)) "the morning after the first art class hypermania)
      •  
        SO, it's my first day, right? I follow directions like the paper sez "Talk to instructor before buying materials..." Everybody else comes in dragging their shit! Everybody is an artist! There is a professional illustrator bla bla bla.. they all have paint, they go to town, some draw, some paint.... the artist doesn't give a rat's is you use crayons!... so i go down stairs and get my big pad and I already heave pencils and yea yea yea... and I do this.... then at the break... I tell him I don't think the head is exactly long enough. He goes on some artistic rant about how it, get this, DOESN'T HAVE TO LOOK REAL, JUST GO FOR IT, I LIKE IT, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY! BLA BLA BLA...... ok well this is the "instruction" and I am a little taken a'back... I say "you mean so I can paint?".... so it turns out I can stand on my head and do the hokey pokey in corner if I want to, (like one old woman) so I run down during the break and get a canvas and (he has suggested just do black and white and play with values)

        about an hour ago · 
      •  so the black and while oil in values is still at the art school and i go back again tomorrow to work on it. The instructor will only be there on Monday to critique this and our paintings (that is how he works) once a week. Tomorrow the model will be there again to continue.
        about an hour ago ·
      •   some people are only there to draw and one woman is doing pastels.
        53 minutes ago · 
      •   the paper said clearly to talk to the artist first, he will decide if you can draw or paint, as if he is some type of MasterDiva.... apparently, according to the clerk in the store, some are, some aren't, depends on the artist.... go figure...
        51 minutes ago ·
      •   and they don't have any cheap stuff there, the paint is 7 bucks a tube!
        49 minutes ago ·
      •   THAT is the cheap stuff! I spent 96 dollars that I did NOT have to spend because I HAD it already at home! on black/white, 5 brushes, paper a canvas and some charcoal and an eraser and some turpentine and plastic cups! crapola!
        48 minutes ago · 
      •   but now i have some good brushes..
        48 minutes ago 
      •   you can pay 45.72 for ONE paint brush. I picked it up by mistake and nearly lost my sight.
        46 minutes ago
      • MY brushes are synthetic. NO animals were harmed in the making of my brushes.
        46 minutes ago
      • although I admit I do own a very nice set of hog's hair bristles that I bought on a lark....
        45 minutes ago ·
      •  this is large, 18 x 24 he told me to get a smaller canvas. I am wearing 2 pair of glasses, one on top of the other, x1.00 to see the artist and x2.00 to see the paper... This makes me know I finally NEED bifocals...
        34 minutes ago
      • he said "because of the size of the room, the model's head should be no larger than your outstretched hand, which is life sized. This is too big as the room is crowded.
        32 minutes ago
      • well, i AM a bit disappointed, it is a "portrait" class, and I wanted it to LOOK REAL... I know it doesn't HAVE TO THAT IS WHY I WENT TO SCHOOL>>> I CAN MAKE PLENTY OF STUFF THAT DOES NOT LOOK REAL... of course can not say this.... I suppose I need photo realism... Jean Genet' , let yourself go :/
        30 minutes ago
      •  I'll know more next Monday when he talks about our stuff.
        26 minutes ago
      • did you know if you stretch your hand out it is nearly exactly the same size as your HEAD, go look in the mirror. Very interesting.
        24 minutes ago
      • the class was three hours. I was bored with this and the black and white values already. I am bring all of my oils tomorrow and finishing details on black and white oil and starting a color so I will have this and a black and white oil and a color oil next monday of this model. I have never painted nor drawn a live sitting model, it is very easy to "zone out" on...
        13 minutes ago
      •  it is odd, there is some human energy there, unlike that of a vase, or a bottle of wine energy.
        12 minutes ago
      • this is a totally new and different experience and something I thought was shallow which is actually totally deeper than can be imagined unless done, someone sitting as a model and someone drawing or painting them. It is a very unique relationship.. If you have not tried it, I highly recommend it.
        10 minutes ago

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