Nudes

Not only is life drawing a brilliant tool for learning about shape, form, perspective, shadow… pretty much every skill an artist needs. I am told it also forestalls dementia.

While I have huge admiration for traditionally trained artists who spend days working on the same painting, I enjoy the spontaneity of quick poses. These drawings take between 1 and 5 minutes.  My aim is to capture the form, movement and mood of the model and pose with the use of rapid, gestural strokes. Sometimes in these poses less can indeed be more…