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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 worked only 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 of the figure and from my experience in visually expressing my sensations in response to a model’s four 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

04001 Running Away

04012 In the Shower

04028 Dance the Hokey Pokey

 

 

04651s Attitude

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04652 Standing Yoga

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04653 Second Thoughts

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04658 Escape

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04659 Easy Going

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04660 Repose

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04661 Sweet Thing

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04662 High Five

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04663 Alive

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04664 Self Esteem

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04665 Re-View

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04666 Moon Struck

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04668 Athlete

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04669 Yes, OK

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04670 Fish Story

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04671 Settled In

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04672 Searching

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04673 Oh Yeah

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04674 Dreaming

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04675 In the Pink

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04676 Runway Rider

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04680 Tall Drink

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04681 Again

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Bow

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04683 Deep Stretch

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04684 Here Comes the Sun

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04685 Feet Up

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04687 Warm Shoulder

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04688 Upswing

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04689 Hello You

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04690 Ready

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04692 Supplicant

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04694 Any Way

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04699 Drinking Again

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04700 Hey You

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04701 Who Me

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04702 At the Bar

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04704 Runaway

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04115 Revelation

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04117 Proud Man

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04120 Throwing Stones

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04121 South Paw

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04122 Mirror Gazing

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04124 Blinding Light

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04126 Morning Exercise

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04137 Black Tresses

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04138 A Question

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04139 Scapegoat

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04140 Steel Driver

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04141 Scrub Woman

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04142 Clairvoyant

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04146 Exhaustion

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04147 Patience

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04150 Getting the Sign

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04157 Puddle Jumper

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04160 Joy

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04162 Modern Dancer

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04163 Kind of Degas

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04164 India

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04174 Whistling

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04178 Count Down

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04181 Jump

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04182 Lost Contact

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04185 Expressive

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04186 Abracadabra

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04188 Olympian

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04189 Relax

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04204 Transgression

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04209 Early Arousal

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04210 Blue Dancer

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04214 Stoned

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04215 Surrender

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04216 Six Months

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04218 Something Lost

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04221 Sun Queen

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04222 Leaving Gomorrah

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04225 Girl from Ipanema

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04229 Climber

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04232 Sunshine Girl

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04258 Taking Leave

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04259 Dancing the Blues

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04261 Rapunzel

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04263 Deep Diver

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04266 Giving Praise

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04271 Voodoo Priestess

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04275 Witchful

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04285 Through the Looking Glass

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04295 Say Again

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04296 Ego

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04306 Cloud Nine

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04307 Waiting on Third

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04648 Knowing Going

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04650 Why Not

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04653 Second Thoughts

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04654 Penance

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04656 Dancer

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04657 Consolation

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04658 Escape

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04659 Easy Going

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04660 Repose

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04661 Sweet Thing

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04662 High Five

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04664 Self Esteem

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04665 Re-View

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04666 Moon Struck

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04668 Athlete

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04669 Yes OK

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04670 Fish Story

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04671 Settled In

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04309 Long Shore Man

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04316 Telling a Secret

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04320 Red Head

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04326 Arch

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04329 Casting a Spell

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04343 Tight Rope Walker

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04347 Brave New World

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04351 Stubbed Toe

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04356 Balancing Act

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04364 Indecision

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04390 Green Devotion

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04394 Last Lap

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04403 New Dance

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04404 New Shoes

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04412 Big Head

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04417 Pacing

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04448 The Sacrament

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04461 Broad shoulders

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04468 Decision

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04472 Distant Laughter

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04475 Massage

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04476 Martial Art

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04480 Spine

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04481 Unforgetable

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04483 Broad Back

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04494 Lounging

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04495 Pink Prostitute

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04509 Waiting to be Seen

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04512 Miscommunication

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04518 Yikes

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04520 Seductress

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04521 Scratch My Back

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04522 Mosquito Bite

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04522a Walking to Work

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04523 Reverse

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04524 Hard to Face

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04526 Coy

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04528 Southern Comfort

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04529 Ear for Gossip

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04532 Thinking of a Wish

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04533 Dancing in the Dark

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04535 Sleeping Beauty

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04544 Riding High

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04548 Pink Lady

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04555 Big Beauty

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04561 Broad Jump

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04564 Simmoning Chi

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04569 Cloud Watcher

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04585 Ciao

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04592 Reverie

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04593 Taken Aback

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04596 Deliberate

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04597 Behold!

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04598 Postponement

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04599 Magician

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04600 No Bugs

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04602 Spilt Milk

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04603 Passionate Dancer

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04604 Belly Dancer

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04605 Curvey

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04Knowing

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04609 Taking Aim

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04614 Long Hair Thinking

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04615 Shadow of Too Much

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04616 Here Comes the Sun

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04617 If, And or Butt

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04618 Old Soft Shoe

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04619 On the Lookout

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04622 Reach for the Moon

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04623 Slipping Off

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04624 Laid Back

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04625 Back View

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04626 Just Around the Corner

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04636 Hi Ho

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