Fairkytes Arts Centre, London, 21 May 2025

25 May 2025

For this evening with LeNu Life Drawing, I was providing poses that ranged between 4 minutes and 20 minutes. In a separate room of Fairkytes Arts Centre a model was sitting for a single long pose as Sherlock Holmes. I’d posed as Sherlock Holmes once before with much-missed Art Macabre (‘Sherlock Bones‘); once was enough for me.

As I’ve said previously, poses with costume and props can be fun but the purist in me still favours working in an uncluttered open space as an unadorned nude figure using only body and inspiration to form creative challenges. It’s what I was able to do in this session, working in the round, mostly standing, or sometimes seated on the floor.

Within my personal style of posing I feel my arm positions are of greatest importance in framing or describing each gesture. Having had two vaccination shots in my upper left arm earlier this afternoon, I had the typical aftermath ache before I even began to make shapes. Fortunately it wasn’t too much of a nuisance. Shapes were unfettered.