Figure drawing, year six

Laetitia has turned her back on you.

These were done with a 7B pencil, the top drawing in two minutes, the drawing below it in the course of roughly an hour, in three twenty-minute poses, punctuated with five-minute breaks.

I've been going into the Art Students League in Manhattan on Saturdays or Sundays now for six years. Before that I tried briefly going in one week night each week but it was tough fighting traffic and trying not to get into class too late. Weekends are better.

I drove in for a few years. It was especially nice when I had a Sunday morning class just after the city revoked parking fees under the campaign that people shouldn't have to "pay to pray" on Sundays. But after a year the rest of the world figured out that parking in the city is free on Sundays and now I'm convinced that ghouls circle the city at midnight on Saturday nights waiting for the clock to strike and grab their spaces.

I did take the summer off, although most years I have continued in one class or another.

I'm of a mind to take a sculpture class but the only weekend class offered in sculpture at the League is one in which students work life size. For a guy who lives on Long Island that's a bit daunting. I'd like to bring my work home when it's finished and I'd prefer not to have to contract with a mover to do so.