tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2595906776424611904.post8378120247632309842..comments2018-05-16T10:58:16.041+01:00Comments on Stoneflower: Life Drawing (titter ye not)Jane Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10101022484621012868noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2595906776424611904.post-82444379866280714512016-10-25T10:14:47.257+01:002016-10-25T10:14:47.257+01:00By coincidence Celia, a few hours after writing th...By coincidence Celia, a few hours after writing this I read an interview with Kate Bottley about the Radio 2 programme she has made, 'Believing in Beauty'. Referring to attending a life class she says "..it startled me that the things I find ugly in myself I found genuinely beautiful in the model..." I know exactly what she means!Jane Dukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10101022484621012868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2595906776424611904.post-16776955537662030022016-10-25T09:14:18.673+01:002016-10-25T09:14:18.673+01:00How many hours and hours have I spent at a life cl...How many hours and hours have I spent at a life class - adding up the 1 day a week x 4 yrs at college plus extra evening sessions. Then for a good number of yrs at a weekly evening class. That's a lot. So I'm unabashed and see, as one of my tutors put it, 'first the curious shapes'.<br />I also remember the models, the characters! the tall very thin man who looked like a poet and talked like an East End wheeler dealer; the young man who never removed his John Lennon specs and knitted Fair Isle jumpers in his break times; the voluptuous black woman who loved to be swathed in yards of silk taffeta ... <br />One thing I learnt above all is that there is beauty in every face and every body, not the air-brushed botoxed kind that magazine/advertising seems to dictate, but real-life beauty - all the subtle shades and contours and weight and movement.Celia Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12776686088752602321noreply@blogger.com