environment / multiple figure
So much of a figure based drawing workshop is about the form fitting on the paper - deciding upon / having a sense of a compositional outcome from the start.
What if that decision making is taken away because the environment is the initial subject matter?
Here an 'empty' space was mapped out - the room as constant - a series of non-shifting verticals & horizontals.
The model (and furniture props) were introduced to the space. He / they had to be 'fitted' against, before, behind whatever position was decided upon. Sometimes a pose imposed upon another, sometimes a pose didn't fit on the paper, sometimes the life model didn't appear at all.
What if that decision making is taken away because the environment is the initial subject matter?
Here an 'empty' space was mapped out - the room as constant - a series of non-shifting verticals & horizontals.
The model (and furniture props) were introduced to the space. He / they had to be 'fitted' against, before, behind whatever position was decided upon. Sometimes a pose imposed upon another, sometimes a pose didn't fit on the paper, sometimes the life model didn't appear at all.
The drawing outcomes suggested a camera language: cropped borders, objects beyond the paper's format, a different compositional play.
It is this compositional play, and illusion of depth within the picture plane, which was used so expertly by Degas:
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