"Back Side, One Arm Behind" (detail)
Charcoal and chalk on grey paper
©2009 Diana Moses Botkin
Working from live models is a luxury for most artists. I'm very thankful for our Artists' Salon in Sandpoint which provides a venue for figure study. This traditional academic exercise is important to understand lighting, form, human proportion, and the optics of foreshortening, as well as an opportunity to increase drawing skills.
I realize, however, that there may be viewers of this blog that might prefer not seeing these studies. So, I'm posting only a portion of one recent piece that's not too revealing as far as nudity goes. Those who would like to view the entire drawing, and my other figure studies in charcoal or in oil can do so at this page at my DailyPainters Gallery.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Figure Studies Available at my DailyPainters Gallery
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6 comments:
hi Diana !! it is always good to come back here and be inspired by your talent and your unique style !!
see you !!!
Thank you, Caio... nice of you to drop by!
Diana,
I just HAVE to weigh in on the public paranoia about nude figure drawings and paintings. I know it isn't lost on you but it rips me that we have to be so careful and apologetic about this when every product sold is sold with some degree of sexual connotation, no matter what it is.
I was listening to Rachael Ray, ostensibly a cooking show, while painting recently and was treated to explicit sexual talk by a Dr Ruth-like "expert". As a child of the 60's and 70's I am certainly no prude but I am so annoyed by all this in your face, sex that I tried to write an email to her about it, but there's no way to get to her or her show on her website.
ENOUGH ALREADY, but God forbid anyone should have to be subjected to figure painting, especially 'the children' who could turn on the television and see plenty of nudity.
Thanks for letting me vent. The hypocrisy makes me nuts.
Thank you for that lucid and articulate appraisal. I agree wholeheartedly.
At the same time I also understand some people's sensitivity to nudity in art, especially something that might arrive in the Inbox uninvited.
I am not an artist, therefore, don't always see what an artist is really looking for but I think nude art is very pretty and interesting if done tastefully. I love to see the curves and shadowing that is done. Plus I'm amazed how someone can do the limbs and shapes so well. This back, for instance, I love to see the curves in it.
The light and the curves is also what I find inspiring, whether the subject is the figure, landscape or something else. The female figure can be especially beautiful; it is after all, God's highest creation.
Seeing the Hand of the Creator in all He has made acknowledges Who He is.
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