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F O R MA R T I S T I C A N N U A L
CHC CURATOR OF HIS OWN CREATIONS JAMES PATTERSONP 35
CRAFTING THE MUSIC RENEE FITEP 84
TRANSFORMING GUNS INTO ART
SUDARSAN RAGHVANP 103
LIFE DRAWING CELEBRATES
HUMAN BODY BOB W. ANDERSON
P 62
NOVEMBER 2012VOL 23ISSUE #7
ARTISTIC ANNUAL 762
L I FEDRAWINGCELEBRATESHUMANBODY
by Bob W. Anderson
FORM 63
L I FEDRAWINGCELEBRATESHUMANBODY
ARTISTIC ANNUAL 764
Life drawing, which is also known as
figure illustration, is depicting the hu-
man body in its most natural state: vul-
nerable.
Because the exposed human body
presents technical demonstration
challenges like form, structure and
foreshortening, life drawing is a popu-
lar method of training among artists on
both the amateur and professional level.
Aside from presenting the opportunity
to practice and learn new skills, like
creating the illusion of an object re-
treating into the background, the nude
model also allows the artist to offer in-
dividual expression on human nature.
Regardless of innate ability or back-
ground in the use of complicated art
techniques, everyone who attends a
life drawing class will seed a new skill
or further development of an already
proven aptitude, said Linda Reeves.
She attends and serves as a contact per-
son for the life drawing workshop held at
the Cherokee Arts Center, 212 Water St.
“Yes, there are some who have the
natural ability, but I think anybody
can develop some sort of skill,” she
said. “We don’t have an instructor. It’s
not actually a class. Basically, it’s an
artists’ [help group]. No matter what
their ability is, we get together to
perfect our talents and practice our
talent by drawing the human form.”
Workshop participant Jerald Pe-
tersen said artists around the world
have been sketching models to help
develop their skills and ability.
“You don’t get many opportunities [to
have access to a life drawing class],”
he said. “That’s what artists do,
[though, is practice their art.] You
can do it a number of ways. There
are various approaches, various
schools about how to do it. [There’s]
the old classical way of teaching, so
in the modern stuff, you get strange
results sometimes.”
The Cherokee Arts Center has been
identified as a place where artists
on every level can come together to
share in the experience of imagina-
tive creation. The life drawing work-
shop, which is held at the center
every other Friday night when the
group is able to meet, underscores
what the building represents.
“We get together to perfect our talents and practice our talent by drawing the human form.”
FORM 65
ARTISTIC ANNUAL 766
FORM 67
Because the center is allowing the
group to use the facility for the
workshop, Reeves explained it is
necessary for a minimum of six art-
ists to conduct the 7 to 9 p.m. fig-
ure-rendering cooperative. Fee for
the class is $5.
“We pay the model $15 an hour, and
we meet for two hours. If we can
have at least six there, then we have
enough money to pay the model,”
she said. “If we have seven people
come to the class, for example, then
we save the money for when have
a less amount. We’re trying to meet
every other Friday, but it depends
on the group and any other factors
that could create a reason why we
couldn’t meet.”
The life drawing workshop has
male and female models who serve
as the group’s body prompt. First-
timers to the workshop need not en-
tertain thoughts of embarrassment
or shyness due to the bare nature of
the class, Reeves said.
“The body is actually a beautiful
thing. It’s only the narrow-minded
who make it nasty,” she said. “That
doesn’t even cross your mind be-
cause you’re looking at the design
or shadow of the figure. Of course, we
cover up the windows so people can’t
peak in, but we’ve never had any
problems with something like that.”
During the two-hour session, the mod-
el will provide 10 one-minute poses,
two five-minute poses, two 10-minute
poses and one 20-minute pose with
each series segmented with group
breaks to allow the model to rest and
adjust for the next pose.
“Sometimes they will lie down or sit.
When we’re doing the one-minute
poses, the models will turn their arms
in different positions. If they’re lean-
ing on an elbow, they have to be in a
very comfortable position to hang on
to that pose for [an extended] length
of time,” Reeves said. “Right now,
we’re talking about doing a model
with clothes. You would try to make
the presence of the body known under
the clothes with factors like wrinkles
and shadows. Like a paper doll.”
“The body is actually a beautiful thing.”
ARTISTIC ANNUAL 7130
LIFE DRAWING CELEBRATES HUMAN BODYBob W. Anderson
CRAFTING THE MUSICRenee Fite84
62
103
35 CHC CURATOR OF HIS OWN CREATIONS James Patterson
TRANSFORMING GUNS INTO ARTSudarsan Raghvan
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