Night Moves Art – Figure Drawing Group

Drawing on Wednesday March 10th
Hello all,

Kelli Bland will be back again with us this week.

As I mentioned last week, it would be nice to start getting some drawings up on the wall in the new space. So at the end of the night, if you are so inclined, feel free to grab a tack and post whatever you would like in the space. Let’s cover the room!

See you at Pump!

- scott

For the next 2 weeks we have Kelli Bland modeling for us.

7 – 9 at the Pump Project Satellite space at 1109 Shady Lane.

“When I start a drawing, I just look very hard and begin to make marks, and then erase the marks, and build up this history of marks…I do know that I never see a figure totally; I always see just a part of it.  I try to see how it is put together.  But I just make marks.” ~ Jim Dine

There was a mix up on the model schedule and actually tonight we will have Katy Hammil from last week back to model for us again.

Kelli Bland will be modeling for the next 2 weeks starting next Wednesday.

Apologies for any inconvenience and hope to see you there.

Wednesday night we will have a new model coming to pose for us. Katy Hammil.

7 – 9, 5 bucks in the back room of the Pump Project Satellite space at 1109 Shady Lane.

See you there!

“What you must express in your drawing is not ‘what model you had,’ but ‘what were your sensations,’ and you select from what is visual of the model the traits that best express you.” ~ Robert Henri

Michelle Keffer from last week will be back again to model for us in our spanking new space in the back area of the Satellite space.

7 – 9. 5 bucks for all you can draw.

Be there or be square.

“Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.” ~ Robert Henri

Found this archive for an interesting looking drawing show called “Rome After Raphael” now exhibiting at The Morgan Library & Museum until May 9th in New York City. The show contains around 80 drawings not often displayed due to their fragility, all from around 15-1600.

They also have on display 2 drawings by Andrew Wyeth which I would personally kill to see in person someday. NYC is a long trip for me but it’s been too long since I’ve been back. Need to get the family up there soon.

This week we have Michell Keffer coming back to pose for us on Wednesday night,

7 – 9, 5 bucks.

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AVAA has an open call for artists for an upcoming figurative show at the Austin Art Space. You can download the entry from here.

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Also, if you have any friends in San Francisco let them know there’s a great figurative show opening at the John Pence Gallery on Post street this month and it looks like they’ve gathered together a great collection of artists.

That’s it for now. Hope to see you at Pump on Wednesday night!

“Five minutes’ consideration of the model is more important than hours of haphazard work.” ~ Robert Henri

One of my favorite contemporary figurative painters is having an opening at the Craighead Green Gallery on Dragon street in Dallas February 20th and I’m hoping to make it up to Dallas for the evening to see this stuff in person.

Harry’s work is a powerful thread of abstracted figurative work on a large scale. He works with house paints and lots of texture, building up layer upon layer off forms and tone to create these haunting and evocative images. There’s a very primitive feel to them reminiscent of cave paintings imprinted into the surface for all time.

Here’s a short documentary about Harry explaining his process and thinking.

Tomorrow night we will have Jodi modeling for us again at Pump Project’s Satellite space, 1109 Shady Lane, from 7 – 9 pm.

$5 bucks as usual to cover the model fee.

Hope to see you there!

“It’s not just about reproducing what’s in front of you – it’s about painting with feeling.”

“I’m a fly trapped in a bottle of shadows!” ~ Johnny Nice, Landscape Painter