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The Honest Gesture

 

    Traditionally, figure drawing sessions are approximately three hours, broken into 20 minute segments.  The model takes five minute breaks between segments.  Artists usually spend the first 20 minutes warming up, that is, drawing 30 second, 1 minute and/or two minute poses.  The purpose of this exercise is to “feel” the pose rather than to “think” about it, to “get loose.”

      I have spent about six hours per week studying the human figure since 1987. Initially, I workedonly in dry media, charcoal, pencil, crayon, etc.  Only after a number of years did I feel I had enough knowledge of the figure to add the element of color to the gesture “experience”.  For my gesture paintings, the model assumes a pose for four minutes. I paint these pictures in that span of time.

      Each painting is a culmination of what I have learned from my constant observation ofthe figure and from my experience in visually expressing my sensations in response to a model’sfour minute pose.  When I paint gestures I am learning to focus on my perception, to experience and express my emotional and visceral reaction to that visual input. Painting a model doing gesture poses expands my consciousness in the realms of sight, sensation, and emotion. I do not reflect.  I do not consider.  I do not judge.  I do not anticipate.  I am in the moment.  I respond—that’s all.

AnneKarin Glass

Visual Thinker

04648 Knowing Going

24x18

oil/paper

04650 Why Not

24x18

oil/paper

04653 Second Thoughts

24x18

oil/paper

04654 Penance

24x18

oil/paper

04656 Dancer

24x18

oil/paper

04657 Consolation

24x18

oil/paper

04658 Escape

24x18

oil/paper

04659 Easy Going

24x18

oil/paper

04660 Repose

24x18

oil/paper

04661 Sweet Thing

24x18

oil/paper

04662 High Five

24x18

oil/paper

04664 Self Esteem

24x18

oil/paper

04665 Re-View

24x18

oil/paper

04666 Moon Struck

24x18

oil/paper

04668 Athlete

24x18

oil/paper

04669 Yes OK

24x18

oil/paper

04670 Fish Story

24x18

oil/paper

04671 Settled In

24x18

oil/paper

04480 Spine

24"x18"

04481s Unforgetable

24"x18"

04483 Broad Back

24"x18"

04484 Playing in the Dirt

24"x18"

04485s Ready for a Change

24"x18"

04486 Scratch My Back

24"x18"

04487s Workout Over

24"x18"

04488s Walking the Line

24"x18"

04489 Caress

24"x18"

04490 Kundalini Trail

24"x18"

04492 Tieing Up

24"x18"

04493 Pitcher

24"x18"

04494 Lounging

24"x18"

04497s Back Again

24"x18"

04498 Blind Faith

24"x18"

04500 A Different Drummer

24"x18"

04501 Long Fall

18"x24"

04502 Slow Progress

24"x18"

04503 Baton Twirler

24"x18"

04505 Looking Forward

24"x18"

04506 Shooting Marbles

24"x18"

04507 On Watch

24"x18"

04508 Swinger

24"x18"

04509 Waiting to be Seen

24"x18"

04510 Floored

24"x18"

04512 Miscommunication

24"x18"

04513s Delightful

24"x18"

04514s Delovely

24"x18"

04515 Delicious

24"x18"

04516 So What!

24"x18"

04517 Cat Woman

24"x18"

04518s Looking Back

24"x18"

04519 Hot Potato

24"x18"

04521 The Explanation

24"x18"

04521s Scratch My Back

24"x18"

04522 Mosquito Bite

24"x18"

04522 Walking to Work

24"x18"

04523 Reverse

24"x18"

04524 Hard to Face

24"x18"

04524s Moving On

24"x18"

04525 Hair Style

24"x18"

04526s Coy

24"x18"

04527 Holding the World

24"x18"

04528 Southern Comfort

24"x18"

04530s Found Guilty

24"x18"

04532 Thinking of a Wish

24"x18"

04533 When You Gotta Go

24"x18"

04535 Sleeping Beauty

18"x24"

04536 Drum Roll

24"x18"

04538s Another Celebration

24"x18"

04540 Humble Trustee

24"x18"

04544 Riding High

24"x18"

04545 Painful Discovery

24"x18"

04548 Pink Lady

24"x18"

04549 Fatty

24"x18"

04555 Big Beauty

24"x18"

04558 Just Big

24"x18"

04559 Stretching

24"x18"

04561 Broad Jump

24"x18"

04563s Backward Glance

24"x18"

04565 Suspicion

24"x18"

04568 Job

24"x18"

04569 Cloud Watcher

24"x18"

04569 Ouch

24"x18"

04571 Penance

24"x18"

04572 Helping Hand

24"x18"

04573 Spoiler

24"x18"

04576 Broken Warrior

24"x18"

04577 Denial

24"x18"

04578 Waiting for Godot

24"x18"

04579 Doubtful

24"x18"

04579 Splayed

24"x18"

04580 Itch

24"x18"

04583 Wow!

24"x18"

04584s Hello Dolly

24"x18"

04585 Ciao

24"x18"

04587s Bebop Gal

24"x18"

04589s Exodus

24"x18"

04590 Traveling

24"x18"

04592 Reverie

24"x18"

04593 Taken Aback

24"x18"

04594 Longing Look

24"x18"

04595 Hot & Cold

24"x18"

04596 Deliberate

24"x18"

04597 Behold!

24"x18"

04598 Postponement

24"x18"

04599 Magician

24"x18"

04600 No Bugs

24"x18"

04601 Revelation

24"x18"

04602 Spilt Milk

24"x18"

04603 Passionate Dancer

24"x18"

04604 Belly Dancer

24"x18"

04605 Curvey

24"x18"

04606 Lady Luck

24"x18"

04607 Knowing

24"x18"

04609 Taking Aim

24"x18"

04610 Lost & Found

24"x18"

04611 Dorothy

24"x18"

04612 Larry

24"x18"

04613 Feet Up

24"x18"

04614 Long Hair Thinking

24"x18"

04615 Shadow of Too Much

24"x18"

04616 Here Comes the Sun

24"x18"

04617 If And or Butt

24"x18"

04618 Old Soft Shoe

24"x18"

04619 On the Lookout

24"x18"

04620 Moving On

24"x18"

04622 Reach for the Moon

24"x18"

04623 Slipping Off

04624 Laid Back

24"x18"

04626 Just Around the Corner

24"x18"

04627 Doubtful

24"x18"

04651 Attitude

04652 Standing Yoga

24"x18"

04518 Yikes

24"x18"

04520 You Who?

24"x18"