They're different from you and me

When a perfectly gorgeous person enters a room , the atmosphere changes. Her or his physical presence fills the available space with molecules of something--- extra clarity, vividness, I don't know. But it happens. Here's a case in point, our model from last night:

Pose times from upper left to lower right: 30 minutes, 20, 10, 7.

Comments

[Big Harry H]

You do this soooooo well. I've never sketched the body like this in real life. I'm sure I will at some point but until then, i'm just going to enjoy your work.

I always enjoy seeing which details you choose to capture. Honestly, i'm sure i'd recognize these people if i bumped into them on the street.

Of course, i'd need to investigate they're genitals for accurate idenification. =0)

[LaureAnne]

Tania, I thank you so much for your perceptive comments. Janey, can you be cloned? You are the ideal viewer and I am so tickled that you checked out the albums and took so much time to tell me what you thought. Lindsay and Kate, thank you! Lindsay, I think you must be referring to Nezbine/Laura M about the Watercolor sketchbook magazine--wouldn't want to take credit away from its rightful owner! Yes, I love New's new book.

[Kate]

Really lovely drawings. You make capturing human contours look effortless. Well done.

[Lindsay]

Laura, these are beautiful! I teach fashion design and when ever the models come in for a fitting, they are like members of a diferent species!
Don't you love Jennifer New's book?
And thanks so much for the referece to Watercolor sketchbook magazine. Its wonderful!
Lindsay

[janey]

I'm sitting in front of my computer at 3:09 (not public at all but could be because my air conditioning is not feeling well and I'm wondering why I didn't sign up for the service this year darn) so what else should I do but go through your albums (since I wanted a good example as I'm doing mine).

*House, Dream - I like the color of the sky and the sort of squiggly lines all over the painting.*Lotus *Variation #6 - this is really, really nice. I like the dark background which you wouldn't think would be a calming color but here it is very much so.
*House, Scotland - again the sky is really beautiful.
*I like everything in the sketchbook but especially sallie drawing. The color is wonderful. The blue in her glasses repeated in her hair and clothes - excellent and she is very much a real person
*Yellow and peach lilies on blue-violet ground - the background is just the best color.
*Orange and blue shenanigans - Page 40 of your sketchbook - flirting birds - adorable.
*The usual suspects - I'll take a bite out the one with a chip on it's shoulder.

Now I've got to peel myself off the chair and have a discussion with my air conditioner (and it's like 90 something outside and it's only the beginning of summer).

Can I post something this long? Hit the post button and let's see.

[Tania]

You're doing great work in these live model sittings! Or standings. Or leanings. Or whatever they are. And it's true--beautiful people awaken some bizarre quality in the mind. They make you hyperaware. I wonder why that is? It doesn't matter if they're male or female, dark or pale, what have you. I'm sure the easy answer is that we think they're attractive, but I don't think it's that easy, since there's often a big gap between what I find sexually attractive and what is just beautiful. And so much of the beautiful thing depends on faces--why should we be so aware of a certain proportionality of facial features? It's beyond my understanding.