Spring Studio

I went to Spring Studio last Tuesday and sat in on a figure drawing class. The studio is a small room down a dozen or so steps off the sidewalk on the corner of Spring and Lafayette in SoHo. The walls are filled with plexiglass-covered figure drawings in a variety of mediums--watercolor, pencil, charcoal, ink--all from past students. The class was four hours long and consisted of many poses for one, two, five, and ten minutes. The last pose was for four blocks of twenty minutes each, totaling eighty minutes for the final pose.

It's been a long time since I've sketched in a serious studio setting, and I really liked it, so I'll be going back on a regular basis.