Tag: Graphite

  • The Female Artist Model: Malice In Wonderland

    The Female Artist Model: Malice In Wonderland

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    Coming off the Women’s March and in the wake of the #MeToo movement, I would be remiss if I did not address the darker side of how female art models have been viewed and treated in history. As in all things professionally, there seems to be separate standards for men and women. In Sarah Phillips…

  • The Artist Model: The Muse Behind The Magic

    The Artist Model: The Muse Behind The Magic

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    An interview with model John A. Carrasco In North America there is a romanticized image of the professional artist’s model. Movies and books are inclined to feed that image by projecting sexy nymphets and oversexed painters. The reality is modeling requires intense concentration in addition to immense physical and emotional control. Artist’s models are not…

  • Drawing: The Line Between Real And Illusion

    Drawing: The Line Between Real And Illusion

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    Learning to draw trains us to see the world through our own eyes and not through the filters of the mind. Our minds delete, distort,and generalize through processing filters. People who can’t draw have not learned to see what they are looking at. Drawing is a skill set that can be taught. It is not…

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