Tisch School

Thanks Patrick Smith again for inviting us for another figure drawing session at NYU Tisch School of Arts Asia. The last round we went there was in April this year.

Easter figure drawing session

Male model with the right body physique is very challenging to draw.

figure drawings

Last Sunday, I made a last minute decision to attend a figure drawing open session on the invitation of Patrick Smith from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia. I was glad I went. I had not been doing any figure drawing after I left Pratt Institute, New York in 2003. Time to pick it up again.

see my other figure drawings done on that day here.

Corner 57

Last Saturday, I wanted to try something new so I decided to use the paper and pastels from Paul, one of the sketchers whom I will be exhibiting my sketches with from 30 Jun to 17 Jul. I had to use his palette and that was a new challenge on location when you were using unfamiliar art materials and tools. I quite enjoyed the process of this new experience.

pastel portraitures

Since I am on this 'figurative' mood, I thought I post these two portraitures that I did when I'd just left the architecture school. I used to attend a once-a-week figure drawing session with an interest group at Cairnhill Community Centre in the mid 80s. Many group members are now professional artists or work in the art related field. This prompts me to wonder "if you are not selling your art, does it make you less of an artist?" or when people ask me "Is this (art) your hobby?" to me, these people have a brain as small a pea..oooops!

pastel artist seow hock meng

I first met the pastel artist, Seow Hock Meng in 1980s. I was with a group of portraiture artists who were painting once a week at the then cairnhill community centre. I need time to find my original portraiture work but you can see them at my website here