Title: Figure To Ground: The Model Seen And Imagined
Author: James, Nicholas
Publisher: CV Publications
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 76
Dimensions: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
Product Weight: 0.59 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9781910110171

Studies made between 2010 and 2020 in group work and studio compositions, developing drawings and watercolours to small scale panel paintings, and the large composition of 2021, Gods and Goddesses: six canvases 54"x48" forming two triptychs of twelve feet span.1 Attending life classes each week studies of professional models, actresses and dancers, are made in watercolour, oil and charcoal pencil. About fifteen sketches are made each session, often in bound books. 300 studies feature models Adrian, Agnieszka, Alberto, Bethan, Caroline, Ella, Fatima, Gilda, Jess, Mairi, Marika, Magdalena, Maya, Mercy. Natasha, Serelyn, Erica, Sophie, Sol, Susannah, Sylvette, Tiziana, Vanessa. The studies are made on canvas, panel or canvas board, small scale from 6x4" or 10"x14" to 60x48".2 A set of panel paintings on the theme of Gods and Goddesses, drawn from Greek classical mythology. Subjects include: Ariadne, Danae, Circe and Zeus.

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