{"id":13975,"date":"2011-11-30T20:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T01:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=13975"},"modified":"2022-09-06T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:04:36","slug":"figure-drawing-11-31-atlanta-artists-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/figure-drawing-11-31-atlanta-artists-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Figure Drawing – 11-31-2011 – Atlanta Artists Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had to tear the last drawing in half to get this piece of usable paper. I'll buy $10 Fujifilm Polaroids, but still find it hard to buy $3 paper for class.<\/p><\/div>\n

Notes: Tonight was a long pose.\u00a0 A bit difficult getting the face down because the paper that I’m working on is half a sheet.\u00a0 But I did set out to draw the entire figure for once and with the long session, it even gave me time to be a DJ.\u00a0 Being a drawing person, I’ve listened to a lot of music over the years to accompany my useless mark making.<\/p>\n

Browsing through other people’s music collection is a somewhat odd thing.\u00a0 These days with entire libraries on a device, most songs listened to are cherry picked.\u00a0 This current generation can’t even sit through a single song without getting antsy and skipping through it, so lost on those ears are the experiences known as albums.\u00a0 Personal and solitary moments of listening to albums beginning to end so that you can appreciate what the artist was trying to do, and make you a more cultured person in real social debates of importance.<\/p>\n

Subtleties like how every last Smashing Pumpkins song on every album is beautiful.\u00a0 Or how when you listen to them separately enough, Radiohead’s “Pablo Honey” might be better than “The Bends.”\u00a0 These days, when a song comes on that was popular just a few years back, most kids will cry out, “Wow, this song’s old.<\/em>”\u00a0 As if 4 years ago was old.\u00a0 No respect for time.\u00a0 Not even the slightest knowledge of just how old Beatles and Motown songs are.\u00a0 Lost on them are artistic pieces like DJ Shadow’s “Endtroducing.”\u00a0 Art that is better than anything you’ll find written or drawn online anywhere.\u00a0 When did that come out?\u00a0 Back in the dark ages of 1996.<\/p>\n

So for tonight’s session I rifled through the studio’s portable music player and queued up some some songs that I felt like listening to:<\/p>\n

“Black Star” Radiohead
\n“Here Comes the Sun” The Beatles
\n“I Still Haven’t found What I’m Looking for” U2
\n“Bullet the Blue Sky” U2
\n“Stand Inside Your Love” Smashing Pumpkins
\n“Take it Easy” Jackson Browne
\n“Somebody’s Baby” Jackson Browne
\n“Everlong” Foo Fighters
\n“My Hero” Foo Fighters
\n“Refugee” Tom Petty
\n“You Don’t Know How it Feels” Tom Petty
\n“Somewhere Only We Know” Keane
\n“Daysleeper” R.E.M.
\n“Losing My Religion” R.E.M.
\n“Moondance” Van Morrison
\n“Wonderwall” Ryan Adams
\n“Just Like Heaven” The Cure
\n“Something” The Beatles<\/p>\n

Again, when I work on any drawing, I tend to think about everything else besides the piece at hand.<\/p>\n

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1:1 (Life Size) Detail, White and Black Charcoal on Canson Bisque<\/p><\/div>\n

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Had some extra time left over so did this quick drawing from another position. Charcoal on Newsprint.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charcoal and Canson Bisque and Newsprint and the Music I like to listen to when I draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,260],"tags":[285,45,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-13975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-art","8":"category-writing","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-charcoal","11":"tag-figure-drawing","13":"post-with-thumbnail","14":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t