{"id":629,"date":"2011-09-23T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatelusiveline.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/23\/drawing-from-life"},"modified":"2022-01-13T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:49:11","slug":"drawing-from-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/drawing-from-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing From Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LD.No1_-802x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LD.No1_-802x1024-1.jpg 802w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LD.No1_-802x1024-1-235x300.jpg 235w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LD.No1_-802x1024-1-768x981.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I went life drawing last night for the first time in years. And it was a humbling experience. There\u2019s nothing like being confronted with the real thing to remind us that everything we draw is in a kind of shorthand. It\u2019s less a question of trying to succeed in capturing the subject than an exercise in trying to control the failure to do so. Which is why drawing from life is so important, and why I\u2019m pleased to have found a new group to join. It\u2019s the visual arts\u2019 equivalent of practicing scales.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: solid windowtext 1pt; border: none; padding: 0 0 1pt;\">\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\">But it wasn\u2019t just the drawing that made me feel like a student again. The heat of the room (one of us is naked, after all), the smell of fixative and charcoal dust, the furtive chalky scratchings, and \u2013 because there\u2019s always one \u2013 the squeal of a board marker being thrown about a sheet of A1 paper, all took me back to Fridays at Norwich School of Art and Design in the 90s. And I struggle with the drawing no less now than I did then.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Don\u2019t bother to click for a closer look \u2013 I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve got better things to do:)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went life drawing last night for the first time in years. And it was a humbling experience. 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