Block 2, week 3 (or 2 and a half, depending on how you count it.)
I haven’t posted anything recently as I’m rather running out of new and intelligent things to say. The current batch of students has chosen interesting topics to write about (Death, culture & anatomy, and Neuroanatomy and illustration for patients) and everyone is doing really well at the life classes. There’s a good, relaxed atmosphere in the classes which (I hope) suggests that people are enjoying the experience even if/when the actual drawing is proving frustrating.
I may have said written this before, but drawing isn’t always easy, and surely it’s better to struggle and be successful in the end than to produce slick, stereotyped accuracy. After all, if you could get it “right” first time, and every time, there wouldn’t be much point in drawing anything more than once, or possibly twice. The more you look, the more you learn (cliché, cliché).
Our professional model was on holiday during the first week of the present Block, and one of the students from the last Block volunteered to pose – fully clothed, I hasten to add. She claimed to have enjoyed it (I was giving her a lift home at the time, so she couldn’t really have said anything else), and found it difficult – as expected – and enlightening – as hoped. It is a strange experience to have people staring at you intently, and recording their thoughts about you graphically for you to inspect. Somewhat analagous to being on the examining couch, rather than standing by it?
No new drawings to add to the blog this week, but the bunting was out again on Dr. Bellyse’s memorial in Audlem. This proably wasn’t anything to do with Dr. Bellyse himself of course, but it would be nice if it were.
