08/15/2005 - LA meets Brooklyn

A_____ came back to model for me after a long absence.

I gave her careful directions to the new studio, how to get to Brooklyn, and where to get off the train.

In it I notice groupings.

A_____ has become social!

She lives in Los Angeles.

Works for an animation company.

Amazing.

05/14/2005 - No Ink!

My drawings of A_____ always work out best when she comes over at the spur of the moment.

She has an awful time remembering appointments, but she is one of the most pleasant of all my models to draw. She is so relaxed while she poses. When she moves it seems to be hardly at all. This amazing grace always comes from her sequence of movements.

This evening she was crazy about me not getting ink on her. She was going out.

I did my best to keep her pure, and a lot of the poses were ones where she crossed her arms or kept her fingers together so I wouldn't get her hands covered in medium.

04/10/2005 - A Dancer

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.

04/18/2005 - The Tunafish Sandwitch

A____ came over. around 9:30.

I wanted to start something with the broad brush
that was simple and powerful, like her body.

She had been eating this big tunafish sandwitch and
bits of it were falling all over the place, so I gave her
a plate and she sat down and drank some water and
goofed around a bit and then she came into the studio
and we got down to work.

She has an animal magnetism that prohibits her from
folding her clothes. She literally strips right on the
paper and drops everything in a pile all around her.

I have to pick it up and fold it, and put it somewhere.

She seems amused by this.