Thirty Before Thirty: Life Drawing

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 7:56 pm. 1 comment

I’m in total denial that it’s been almost SEVEN MONTHS since I last wrote anything on here. You’d think in that amount of time I would have checked off at least a few items from my “Thirty before Thirty” list. Yes, you’d THINK that. Well, to be honest, after a couple months of “oh I’ve got LOTS of time, I’ll just work on those things later”… I completely FORGOT about the list! Looking back on it now I realize there were quite a few things that I really should have gotten to this summer when it was nice outside (picnics, bike rides). And there are are some other things that I really should have been working on this whole time but haven’t (animating something every month).

Well, anyway, I’m not going to be too hard on myself. I have had other projects come up and overall I am pretty happy with how I’ve spent my time so far in 2010.

One thing that I can definitely check off the list is: “Go to life drawing sessions/classes.”

Todd and I found a great studio right on Burnside on the way home from work: Hipbone Studio. We’ve been attending the Wednesday evening drop-in life drawing sessions. And, for the most part, we go every week. It’s been great! Not only are we getting better at drawing the figure, but it gives us three hours of uninterrupted, meditative drawing time in the middle of the week. No computers, no work-worries, no household chores – just drawing. I definitely look forward to going every week.