I really love the studio I'm working at. Porta Romana has beautiful lighting and it's wonderful to be working with artist that are so passionate and dedicated to their work. the only downside is it's about a 30-40 min walk from my house... I think I'm going to purchase a bike this week.
The first 3 days of class we did short poses (one 6 hour pose for Monday and Tuesday and a 3 hour pose on Wednesday), and Thursday we set our long pose. For the next 5 weeks the students will work on painting this pose, it's a beautiful contrapposto, simple, but beautiful.
what was also encouraging was that before our first session was finished I'd had two students approach me about working with them on projects outside of class, i was even more elated when i found out that neither of these students were doing standing poses (one is a seated sculpture and the other is a reclining pose), i wasn't sure my body could handle 6 hours of standing a day... at least not to jump start back into long poses. I've also lined up a few open sessions at Angel Academy, but they didn't schedule me until November, which made me a bit sad, but I'll be glad to work with them.
Tomorrow we start our second week and I'm excited to get back into a routine and to get started on some new projects. I'll post soon about my recent adventures at the Accademia, La Specola, the Florence Wine Event, San Gimignano, and the Chestnut festival in the mountains outside of Florence.
said festival helped me truly begin to appreciate freshly roasted sweet chestnuts... and locally made sausage. mmmmm......
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