| Figure Drawings
I love drawing figures. When and if I ever have the money, one of the first things I'll do is hire a model from time to time. I'd like to try pastel and paint. For at least a dozen years, I would go to a figure drawing session, usually at The Art Students League, at least once a week. I haven't gone for a few years now. I think it's an age thing. After painting all day, I don't have the energy to draw at night any more. But I use to do it so much, so regularly, that I got into a fine-tuned groove with it. I became like a living camera. If I sat close to the model, the figure would run off the page. If I were far away, the figure would be very small on the page. It was an automatic thing, and I could not do otherwise. I love my figure drawings, but everyone does not share this sentiment. Two of my bigger collectors do not respond to them at all. I don't know why that is. All of these drawings are compressed charcoal with eraser, on 90lb hot press watercolor paper. The first one is probably a one-minute pose. The others are all five-minutes. I tended to kill the drawing if I went longer. Tim Folzenlogen |
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