Dragged myself outta bed last Sunday morning, after I'd gone to a gallery show in Seattle the night before, and headed down to my local life drawing studio. I was lucky enough to attend the Krab Jab Studio show 'Rituals: The Art of Sara Winters and Cynthia Sheppard' and was really inspired to get back on the life drawing horse. Haven't really been terribly consistent with my life studies over the last couple of years so I decided that I really wanted to get back into it. I really enjoy the time constraints of completing a painting with a live model and then just letting it go, instead of endlessly 'tinkering' with something until it's 'perfect'. I also find it improves my other work with subleties that I might not otherwise include with photographic reference. So here's my effort from Sunday's class. Hopefully I'll have a lot more of these to show in the coming months:)