You HATE the Chair

You HATE the CHAIR!

The CHAIR comes in to play in Part 2 of the Figure Drawing Workshop.
Part 2 of the Figure Drawing Workshop seamlessly starts with the 5 and 10 minute poses and more time to make more marks. Or more time to spend looking and evaluating and responding.

The 5-minute poses are mostly standing and you want to use the 'extra time' to define the basic figure and ground relationship. Look for and define that ground plane the model is standing on and see that space. Train your eyes to do a more-inclusive looking. You are dividing up the surface area as you make marks so use the Gestural Awareness you just gained in Part 1 short poses and divide up the surface into a meaningful arrangement to complement the pose.  And compliment the model's hard work for you.

The CHAIR functions to introduce the 'Real World' into our thought-planes. The CHAIR functions to set up a relationship between the sensuous organic living moving figure and the supporting structure of the man-manufactured rectilinear CHAIR that demands to be dealt with. We Hate the Restrictions and Rules its following demands from us. You are an ARTIST. 

You remind yourself that you came here tonite with color sticks and burnt twigs to Play and you are not letting this rigid chair get in the way. But you can only delay the reckoning so far and then you must admit to that obit or file that form ten-forty A.

Just remember, for NOW you HATE the Chair. You just long for that time when you have given up fighting it and actually Love the Chair.
Then you are truly an artist able to tell us how the hated CHAIR deals with all that animosity.