Lifedrawing in ArCo- Centro de Arte e Comunicacao , Lisbon 7th of March

After a longer break, I am back to Lifedrawingclasses at ArCo in Lisbon. Today’s class was student led, meaning that we could all use the materials we wanted and decide together on the time of the poses. We started with a whole range of 5 minute and 10 minute poses. I started using Indian ink applied with a small stick, all drawings on A2 format:

And one drawing with water and dripping the ink onto wet parts:

I continued using oil pastels with this same method of applying ink:

I really like the looseness of using ink. When I tried combining it with a neater pencildrawing, I got stiff and uninteresting immediately:

For the last pose, we had 20 minutes:

I felt happier with the quicker poses, and feel how I prefer applying ink loosely with a stick or using water. On the whole, I felt really happy to be back to lifedrawing. It was a fun and cooperative atmosphere between the students and the model and I found the poses challenging and interesting.