First session with AE.
A__ takes simple poses and moves her legs and arms like a Hindu dancer. She is easily the most elegant and centered of the models I've worked with, especially in the way that she moves.
Grace appears as a form of laziness. No wasted words or motions. Athletes when not competing, move slowly. Grace won't expend effort unnecessarily. Movements lead to another place that's stable.
A_ has a simple almost primitive center. Drawing her is like running after a lion. There's a lot of held energy in her shoulders, like S___.
She wants to be told she's beautiful, she wants to be relaxed by a man. I see that. These sessions are a way for her to drop everything, clothes, food, past, future.
She drifts into a different space, the present.
I paint.
