Life Drawing at the 'Village...

I have found that since I've been working fairly non-stop on series' illustration that trying to fit in time for personal art has become problematic (it may just be me, your mileage may vary).

So, since I was starting to feel like I didn't have enough going on in my life (*cough*), I volunteered to monitor a Life Drawing series back at the art studio I used to teach at before my-life-of-relentless-deadlines.

Arts Umbrella is located in the quaint and charming Country Village.

It was a beautiful, sunny morning, with their weekly Farmer's Market in full swing (nearly the last one of the season).

One of the reasons I love Country Village is that there are all kinds of critters underfoot -

Including this mama-hen with her *10,* just days-old chicks. Awfully late in the season for these babies...

But back to Life Drawing - in trying to put these sessions together with enough attendance to pay for the models I stumbled across the most wonderful 'event' site: Meetup. This site and service was new to me, and boy is it comprehensive! and a terrific meeting tool. I'm looking forward to expanding its use in the future.

And I must say that the figure drawing session went well. We had a terrific turn-out and a great model. It's been some time since I've done life drawing and am working out the kinks in the rusty anatomical-observational skills, but it felt really good to be doing it again. Doing something that is just art, for art's sake rather than for a client or deadline. And the whole rationale behind being 'in charge' was to make certain the I would have no excuse not to attend.

This should work!