Back to normal and life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop this evening. I made a pear and chocolate sponge cake for our tea break. I often find that the drawings I do during the ‘long’ pose, usually about an hour, end up rather stiff, formal and academic. I suppose that isn’t a bad thing, but I wish I could get the freedom that I achieve in the short, 2 or 3 minute warm-up drawings. Ho hum.
Drawn in Faber Castell Pitt pens, sizes S and B and white and black conte crayons onto a piece of A4 mounting (matte) board, prepared with 2 coats of acrylic gesso and a black ink wash applied at random.
scribblah 
The more time you have, the more opportunity you have to fiddle with it and mess it up. I vote with the previous comment–do a lot of quick versions of that long pose.
Are you kidding? This is full of life!
Thank you. It reminds me of the Victorian academic artschool drawings, but I guess that’s no bad thing. Sometimes I should get away from the scribbling, I suppose.
cake recipe?
hahaha – it’s just a standard chocolate sponge recipe, but peel and cut up some fresh pears and put them in the bottom of the sponge tin before pouring in the cake mix. Like a pineapple upside down cake, but with pears.
Is it a taught class where you have to do as you’re told? Or can you do several quicker drawings on the one pose while others are doing their ‘longer pose’ drawings?
No, it’s not taught. I could have moved around and done quicker poses, but I’m too lazy. And I had jet lag and it was warm and I nodded off and dropped my pen at one point. Maybe next week……