All about the Ass-Ripper

So, I love Pilates. I said to Diana (a girl in my class who's also one of the cool table girls in my Art 3 class) "wow, I feel like a little kid discovering my body for the first time." It's the coolest thing though, because I can feel the results after only like 4 weeks or maybe 5?

The instructor is I'd say in her 60's with the body of a 20 year old and she totally looks like tburnette from three's company.



Anwho, there's one weird thing about this class...An overweight woman in her late 40's rips the loudest ass I've ever heard. Every single class she does it. My sister tried holding back her laughter last week during class but couldn't and did the spitting laugh. You know the one, when you know you aren't supposed to laugh at something but you just can't hold it in and all at once it comes spitting out...almost like this woman's farting I guess.

What I don't understand is, how does she come to class twice a week making her nasty butt songs while everyone else is quiet and relaxed trying to concentrate?

Every class right after we get out my sister and I discuss this. Today she started the conversation with, "damn bitch, what are you eating? It sounded like she sharted today. The old man in our class doesn't even let loose." Oh, Alyssa.

My theory is she enjoys coming to class so she can release herself and doesn't care what anyone thinks. Okay, that's great and liberating, whatever. Why doesn't she drive her flatulent ass through McDonalds (cause you know she does) on her way to pilates with a personal trainer and spare the air for the people who aren't walking gas bubbles?

Anyone else have an ass-ripper in their class? Or, is anyone an ass-ripper who would like to defend this broad?

At 3

work from Art 3, I'll have to tell you more about these at a later time. Gotta get ready for Pilates!

Homework for figure drawing

This is a hand exercise. We first read about drawing the hand and hand movements and then applied what we read into the homework. I should have done this exercise using more schematic sketching to show where the bones and joints are and where they bend, almost as if the hand was see-through. I think I'll redo this one.
This a homework exercise on proportion and perspective using Sight Measurement, using a pencil to measure the relationship of one body part to another and the angles of each part.The model is my friend Andrina's boyfriend, Rob. Thanks Rob! Just for the record, Andrina did all the sheet adjustments while simultaneously serving as Rob's cabana girl.

This is Andrina

more figures

This is a blind-gesture sketch which was done without looking at the paper while sketching and without lifting the charcoal from the paper. This was difficult at first because I wanted to check to see my progress, but the exercise isn't about making the sketch look good. This is to practice capturing the weight distribution and movement of the model and comes more from the artist's feeling than technique.
Another blind-gesture
This is a schematic drawing, I call this, Chick in a Chair.
This is a little different than the other sketches. For this exercise we used he side of the charcoal and shaded in the fom of the body, pressing harder where the shadows were darker and lightening the pressure on the charcoal where the shadows were lighter. Then we went back in with a charcoal pencil and used countour lines to define the shape of the body by holding the pencil lightly at the opposite end of the tip using the index and middle finger and thumb.

Figure drawing

These are sketches from my figure drawing class. The first two are schematic sketches which focus on the parts of the body geometrically. This is done using the side of a conte crayon.
This is a gesture sketch of a female. A gesture sketch is usually done quickly keeping continuous contact of the charcoal on the paper. This teaches the artist to relate/empathize with the model and become kinesthetic with the model, capturing the movement and weight distribution of the figure. It also is a way to practice seeing the figure as a whole and is a technique used to practice filling the whole paper with the figure.

These are two drawings from my Art 3:Intro to Art and Design class. This class is a lot like high school art classes I took which introduce the concepts of Art. It's nice to have a refresher course on the basics of 2-D design. Plus, the girls at my table are awesome and we have a lot of fun during class.
The top drawing is a self-portrait using contour line to suggest the areas of shadow. We used charcoal on 18x24 in.


This is a blind-contour drawing. We had to keep our charcoal on the paper not lifting it at all for 10 min. (this exercise can continue for as long as the artist has patients to look) while looking at ourselves in a mirror. We also could not look at the paper at all. It's a way to train the eye into "seeing", improves an artist's patients while drawing, is a calming almost meditative exercise or experience, and a great warm-up. Looks kinda like Picasso, wouldn't you say?