Impressionism Dancer

My friend Jann Haworth is leading a group-made mural (over 200 people involved). Years ago I helped get another group mural of hers in SLC started (when I was director of SLC’s youth arts programming), and did 5 figures on it: SLC Pepper. It was a re-imagination/update of her grammy award winning album cover for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Jann asked me to make one of the large figures for the front row of the new mural. I drew it out while in Montana at 2/3 life size, then had Kinko’s enlarge it to the mural jumbo scale.

A studio view of all the drawings leading up to and including the collage form. This view of the collage is the only shot that the camera didn’t distort the legs into tree trunks. When I dropped her off to Jann she confirmed that the photo had added at least 20 lbs.

Nearly 9 foot tall enlargement of the drawing on the R.

Beckanne Sisk of Ballet West, May 2013 She is now a (the) Principal dancer in the company.

I hung the image at the wrong angle, and tilted this image to about the correct gesture.

She is made from an Impressionism coffee-table book, and her hair is of Remington bronze figures.

E stands in for scale.

detail low. Cezanne, Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Gauguin, Renoir

middle; same artists as above plus Cassat, Seurat, Remington,

The extended arm is all Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte.

I just realized I did more work on her after this shoot, but anyway…Jann tells me it is “pure witchcraft”.

Daily Doodles

5 minute drawing, with another 5 or so minutes- could have kept going with shadow and etc, but stopping is important, even if a bit early.

2 minute, relined 

Ink Sketch

Gymnast on bar. Dynamic pose with dual foreshortening  of up/in, in layered ink marker. Her L leg needs more lift, and her body should coil over her arms with more tension: ink is unforgiving, but brings added depth to a sketchy-doodle.

Figure Gestures

2 minute plus 2 minute: 20 count of 2 minute drawings, then returned for another set of 2 minutes per drawing. Then without the model, pulled out favorite lines in darker pencil.

extended drawing at larger scale

Because: overstreaming of Dead Author’s Podcast

graphite extended drawing

Sketch w/ exteded drawing

Sketch

Gravity Gobble-Gobble’s Model.

Thanksgiving gravity still in full effect on the model. I like the layered jumble of limbs, the indirect light washing the shadows, and the sculptural mass of the form.