Waterloo Action Centre, London, 22 February 2025 – part 2

Part 1 had been and gone, so had my snacks for the half-hour interval. It was time to begin part 2 of this London Drawing double session at Waterloo Action Centre. As is often the case when our focus moves to longer poses, fewer artists were attending in total, but some came especially, and a few stayed on from the previous two hours.

As per part 1, artist Andrea Voisey was leading the session. Roughly the first third of our time was given over to warm-up work with poses not exceeding 10 minutes. After this we moved on to our two long poses. I was seated for both, albeit presenting very different attitudes and angles.

The last pose on a soft padded chair ought to have been the most comfortable but as is so often the case, I managed to make it painful. I’d perched on the very edge of the chair so its side arms wouldn’t obscure me, and I tilted my body forward but too much over to the right. Hours later I was still paying for those decisions in achiness.

Interesting feedback on that last pose from one artist, however, was they loved trying to capture the curve of my back. It’s fascinating that, despite all my efforts to create a pose with forward-facing limbs, lines, angles and spaces that offered equal challenge all around the room, it was a part of me I couldn’t see that caught the attention.

I’ve become a curvy model at last.

Pose minutes, 4pm-6pm

Part 1 : 10, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 5, 27.
— break —
Part 2 : 40.

Artworks

With apologies to artists I’m unable to credit.

Artwork by Andrea Voisey.