Bye Bye Drawing Psycho-Baggage

Eureka!  After 6 months of full time studies at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art and a month’s art/travel experience in Bali, I’m thrilled to report that I’m actually enjoying our live drawing sessions. I can honestly say that I’m no longer feeling any emotional baggage around drawing.  I’m not saying I’m a master drawer – far from it! But I’m having fun and accepting the results of the practice.  Each task is simply an exploration – of myself, of the materials, of the model, of the exercise in drawing.  Now that’s a far cry from what drawing had been my whole life, so it’s definitely noteworthy. Yay!

In the past 2 weeks, I’ve attended four 2-hour sessions.  You can’t really recognize my style from one to the next, but you can recognize that I’m drawing human beings.  Yay again!

On my first day back from Bali, our model didn’t show up, and so I suggested we each take turns modeling (thus the clothes).  It was great and helped us appreciate a model’s work much more so.  We only held our poses for a short time.

Instead of sitting down with a small drawing pad and pencils like I used to do after a long day’s work, I’ve been standing at an easel with vine charcoal and large-scaled paper.  The results are much freer.

This was the most fun – I went in straight away with a marker and tried zentangling again.  Loved that!  Loved it very much!

Not only am I enjoying my life drawing sessions at school, I’m bartering for them:  I’ve been helping out with a few tasks in preparation for our year-end exhibition. Bonus!  I look forward to 2 more sessions next week before my week in Italy.