Good Morning, Campers. Yesterday I went to Hipbone drawing studio during their 1:00 to 4:00 drop-in session. For a mere $10 I got three hours of drawing time with a live model: gesture studies, short-term poses, and one long-term. Great fun, though I was nervous about drawing from life after such a long hiatus. Curiously, I now find painting to be the more natural medium for figure studies. Go figure (ha! bad pun). In my nervousness, I kept trading off from one medium to another--charcoal to graphite to pastels to crayons--and occasionally I just intermingled them on the same picture (never very successfully). Next time I go I think I'll discipline myself to stick with one medium per session. Visit Hipbone @ http://hipbonestudio.com/. Their site is a blast. Enjoy.
Five reasons to smile despite the fact that Sen. Barack Obama voted for the FISA bill: (1) The haiku. A greatly undervalued poetic form. Powerful when done well. (2) Sterling Hayden's performance as General Jack D. Ripper in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Pitch perfect: cool, calm, collected, calculating lunacy. (3) The line, "Mr. Fire Chief, do not joke. This business is just too sad." in Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano. (4) The fact that the summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone (thanks to John McPhee for that observation!). (5) Naples Yellow. What would a painter do without the charm, tranquility, creamy warmcool of Naples Yellow?
I'll leave you with a haiku written by one of my students from some years back. Used without permission, of course--like all things on this blog! (thanks Ryan!):
Bottom of a bottle
It’s coming up the way it went down
His signature gesture.
It’s coming up the way it went down
His signature gesture.
--Ryan LaLonde
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