Last night's exercise... make something up in the background. Our model wore a kinda funky straw hat and half-sat/stood. I thought she looked like she was waiting for something - a train, or a plane... so I drew in the arched doorways. We ran out of time, but I might add some suitcases later, maybe a big trunk.

I think I need a vacation...

It's funny how things turn out. Last week our model started with a standing pose - back to most of the students. It was fine, but not exceptional or exciting... then about 10 minutes into the pose, she started to feel not so good... she warned us that she was stepping down for a break - no problem, but then she proceeded to fall into a faint. Thank goodness Neville was close by and caught her before she fell. We would have given up the night and let her go home, but she wanted to carry on - so we got her into as comfortable a pose as possible and she toughed it out for the remaining two hours - we watched her pretty carefully afterwards, but she did a great job - a tough cookie!

Drawn last week, but I've been buried in work for several weeks, so posting drawings has been relegated to backburner status. My 365-day experiment is going sadly awry and not finding time to draw every day is not good for my mood.

So, I will do my best to get caught up but not beat myself up too much about missing days...

What the heck - I can change it to 365 posts, not necessarily consecutive - so what if it takes until March 2016? Click here for Madeline...