Neither snow nor dark of night...

 ...could keep us from having a pretty good sized group.   Thanks, Lady S, for another great evening of art.

 

Thanks for sharing, Will & Seth.

Fewer but longer poses

  We took a vote (how very revolutionary) and did three 15 minute poses and finished with our normal 45 minute pose.  The concept of an evening of gesture drawings was revisited and two of us were game for it as well as our model.  Perhaps...  We also threw out the idea of two consecutive sessions of a single pose resulting in a much deeper exploration of a drawing.  What does the group think of these ideas?

  Thanks to Will C for sharing some of his sketches.

Good size crowd

 

A few different artistic takes of Lady S.  A full house.  Makes for a pretty great night with The Black Hand Group.  Thanks to Seth & Will for sharing.

Back to work with Lady S

 

 

Another wonderful evening of drawing, and in Seth's case, painting the lovely Lady S.  Now, let's see if we can make it two in a row.

Problems abound for our little group

  I wasn't given enough notice by our former model to post a cancellation of Thursday's session.  We are now down to one model, the wonderful Lady S.

 We also have intermittent access to Miss P...

  

  However, other obligations keep her availability at a minimum, so we are now running low on choices.  I don't want to burn out Lady S or Miss P so I am asking the group to keep their eyes open for possibilities to replenish our ranks of models.  I'll be reaching out to a couple of former models who may have leads and will be posting this recruitment poster in a couple of locations.  

  I am also considering hiking the model fee from $5 to $7 so that we can offer the models more compensation and better compete with MSU-B and their pay scale.  For as long as I've been drawing with the various groups the fee has remained $5 (at least 27 years).  Let's just say that tariffs have forced my hand.

  I appeal to any and all artists who may have contacts who may be willing to work with our group.

 

FINALLY!!!!

 Two weeks of no figure drawing is just intolerable!  Back at it last night.

 Thanks, Lady S.  What a great evening of drawing with a terrific group of artists.  In fact, here are two pieces by Will and another by Seth.