Our Figure Drawing Workshop Comes of Age

Thank you all for helping our workshop come of age last night. You matured. You coalesced. Your combined Energy was harmonious as our expanding group of eager artists materialized for the 7 pm SHARP drawing session to begin.
Thanks to YOUR SUPPORT, the night was Splendid for all.

What Jorgen Hansen left us was the room 23 environment he created in that time/space slot to Talk About ART. To BE an ARTIST (for a lot of us, WORK is interfering with our desire to be an Artist twenty-four seven three sixty-five.)
Jorgen encouraged us to be brave and let our soul and our individuality breathe.
He gave us this environment. We continue to use it and improve it if we can.
Sometimes these changes are forced on us.

Let's envision our 3 hours spent in Figure Painting Workshop to be one of IMMERSION. We are immersed in a Model-Centric Environment. Our MODEL is in Focus in the middle of the room.
The next layer is the encirling ring of Artists and their Easels and Benches and Tools. And their Motives, and their Physicalities and Sensitivites, There seems to be some kind of Random Radiation wandering around the room also.

We know how the Workshop proceeds with part 1 and part 2 and the different poses. We are warmed up, we've been scratching and rubbing and cussing up a storm into a stack of drawings. YOU are CURIOUS NOW to see what others have been doing. Luckily, it is now 9 p.m., --- OBSERVATION TIME. Show and Tell.

Immersion means that we turn our Easels toward the middle with our drawing on it. We pin up smaller drawings on the board still. We look at them all Close-Up and we gather in the middle of the room surrounded by an Image Circumference of ideas to investigate.

How can we possibly LOSE? What a RESOURCE to have available.
And with enough time to do a final pose with a new idea.

Keeps me Fresh and 'coming back for more', say 9 out of 10 Recent Graduates

When we have all the drawings side by side on the wall, it is easy to compare neighbors.
When we are immersed in a circumference of drawings, we can connect any two spokes and compare ANY two drawings. To educate our eyes. To train them to see more.
This is HUGE.
May THE FORCE be with us.