Hidden Woman
This is a drawing I made January 14, 2010 at the Thursday Night Drawing Group (TNDG) session. BTW, we’ve been meeting 12 years.
That night, I was using only watercolors on 300lb cold press paper (Arches). That’s the paper with dimples and heavy sizing, so the watercolor stays on top of the paper, easily mixes colors; and, as the load of paint in your brush diminishes, you get these great missed spots of white on the paper peeking through the color. I chose to limit my medium this way to channel my art in new directions.
This piece, which I title “Hidden Woman,” simply leapt off the model into my imagination and then onto the paper.
I saw a strange thing.
The model was entirely nude and exposed, sprawled with her pudendum in brightest light.
Yet her face was invisible, in shadow, hidden.
It might be a comment on our time.
how’d it go?!
hi nics!
the surgery was entirely successful (YEA!); and, tho it was even harder surgery than last time (surprisingly!), RECOVERY has been SWIFT due to (1) i wasn’t sick this time (last time i was near death), (2) i knew what was going to happen and chose it (it was more like being mauled by a bear, before); and (3) i worked successfully with the anesthesiologist to reduce to MIMINUM the amounts of DRUGS i was given. that made a BIG difference!
i am happy happy happy at the prospect now of fully recovering and being WHOLE again, going to the gym, running on the beach half-naked, cavorting without the – let us say – APPARATUS that was visited upon me strangely for 11 months.
i think i willl even soon be doing art again – which is amazing: last time it took MONTHS; now i’m getting ideas right now already.
i’m comin back, nics, bigger and badder than ever!
thanks for asking,
xo,
jamers