Figure Friday - re-visiting left hand drawing...

Wet, dreary and dismal life drawing day today....

1 minute gestures...

... and then I thought I would re-visit my left-hand drawing attempts in the longer poses.. wow... way to feel uncoordinated...

(10-20 minute drawings..)

Sunday Sketching -

Lots of talking heads today...

...so I used my larger sketchbook and tried to get some semblance of a likeness in the 10-20 minutes I had per head...

This was was attempted left-handed. boy! it's hard!

Figure Friday -

Getting back into the swing of 'real life'. Trying to reassert the feeble beginnings of routine and 'balance' (life can't be all about gardening. Or can it...?)

Today, a couple of my POBL cohorts came to my Life Drawing session - I was especially interested in a recent technique that the awesome Kathleen Kemly has been working on the last 6 months or so.

She's been drawing from life with her left hand (see? photographic evidence! and yes, she is normally right handed) - to great effect!

(drawn by Kathleen)
There are a couple of reasons for this - first is to bypass all the drawing 'habits' and the visual shorthand that comes from them. Since your hand doesn't know what to do out of habit, you are forced to really *look* again -

(drawn by Kathleen)
- and secondly, it helps to de-lateralize your brain. Easier to get right into the right hemisphere. Ones' non-dominant hand may not be as facile as the other, but see how lyrical ones' lines can be?

(drawn by me)
So here are my first, tentative attempts with my left hand. So hard! And amazingly exhausting!

(brain dead -back to the right hand)
It sooo fried my brain that after about an hour of that I was reduced down to only drawing feet...