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I modeled for a figure drawing class for the very first time on November 6, 1984. Last night, at an anatomy class at the Texas Academy of Figurative Art, I finished my first 30 years of modeling. Tomorrow night, at the Friday Night Lights and Shadows painters group at Brookhaven College, I will start my second 30 years on the model stand. It is a job I love. With all the busy-ness going on in life, doing an art class is one of the few chances for me to just simply be. And when, after a long pose that causes cramping, pain, or the loss of feeling in a foot or leg, I question why I keep at it, I only have to look at the amazing and beautiful works of art that are produced.

What I'm having a problem dealing with is that I am actually old enough to have done something professionally for 30 years...

danielh41 wrote:I modeled for a figure drawing class for the very first time on November 6, 1984. Last night, at an anatomy class at the Texas Academy of Figurative Art, I finished my first 30 years of modeling. Tomorrow night, at the Friday Night Lights and Shadows painters group at Brookhaven College, I will start my second 30 years on the model stand. It is a job I love. With all the busy-ness going on in life, doing an art class is one of the few chances for me to just simply be. And when, after a long pose that causes cramping, pain, or the loss of feeling in a foot or leg, I question why I keep at it, I only have to look at the amazing and beautiful works of art that are produced.

What I'm having a problem dealing with is that I am actually old enough to have done something professionally for 30 years...

It would be interesting to see side-by-side comparisons of your modeling work 30 years ago and your work today.

earendel wrote:

danielh41 wrote:I modeled for a figure drawing class for the very first time on November 6, 1984. Last night, at an anatomy class at the Texas Academy of Figurative Art, I finished my first 30 years of modeling. Tomorrow night, at the Friday Night Lights and Shadows painters group at Brookhaven College, I will start my second 30 years on the model stand. It is a job I love. With all the busy-ness going on in life, doing an art class is one of the few chances for me to just simply be. And when, after a long pose that causes cramping, pain, or the loss of feeling in a foot or leg, I question why I keep at it, I only have to look at the amazing and beautiful works of art that are produced.

What I'm having a problem dealing with is that I am actually old enough to have done something professionally for 30 years...

It would be interesting to see side-by-side comparisons of your modeling work 30 years ago and your work today.

Do you really want to drive everyone else away from here?

lb13

earendel wrote: It would be interesting to see side-by-side comparisons of your modeling work 30 years ago and your work today.

I wish I had some of the drawings/paintings from 25 to 30 years ago. I didn't have a camera built into a phone back then (much less a phone) to take pictures of the work. And the students all needed to keep the work for their semester grade, so I never got offered any of it.