Life drawing online, 12 May 2024

The ideal email to receive when one has nothing planned for the next day: “Last min request but I don’t suppose you are free tomorrow Sunday 12th May to model for an online session 2-3.30pm…”. Within ten minutes I’d posted an affirmative response. It would be my second time on Zoom for London Drawing Group this year.

Artwork by Cynthia Barmish.

Artwork by Brittany Gutheim.

As with my last London Drawing Group booking in January, this session was led by Lucy McGeown. Our area of focus was “how parts of the body meet each other in a pose“, their “points of contact” and “shapes they make of the body“. I would manifest 90 minutes of appendage-on-torso / appendage-on-appendage action.

Artwork by Elin.

Artwork by Brittany Gutheim.

I also manifested the new Zoom backdrop in my studio – a multi-coloured, patterned hippy sheet hanging behind me, in front of which I could pull plain dark curtains from the left or plain light curtains from the right as required. I’d used my previous London Drawing Group wages to buy these, so it seemed fitting to flaunt them now.

Artwork by Cynthia Barmish.

Artwork by Elin.

After five warm-up poses of 2 minutes each, we progressed to a couple of 15-minute standing poses: one facing forward with hands on chest and hip, the other with arms as a chalice in sideways stance. For the final two poses I sat on a chair: first with left leg across right thigh for 15 minutes, second with both knees raised for 20 minutes.

Artwork by Sabine Wuttke.

It was a lovely session for a warm spring afternoon. As often when modelling online, I was alone in my own home but there may have been hundreds observing me around the world. Probably It was nearer forty, but nice to find out later that regular in-person artist Elin Wyn had been among them. Thanks, Lucy, for inviting me again. 🙂