Gesture Images - the art of capturing the moment

It creates an aura of self-doubt, that what I see is not what others see, and that I'm deluding myself. This may be true in some, maybe all, circumstances. But the advantage of becoming older is the self confidence I never experienced in my youth.

Mostly, gestures are used as warm ups, done on newsprint and thrown away. The poses generally last no more than 2 minutes. I like them to be continuous movements or less than 10 seconds apart. I wondered if I could turn them into collectible art, so I started doing them on rag paper using a different color pen, with permanent ink, for each pose. Many of them end up in the trash. Some are keepers...

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"Gesture A" - available only as a print

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"Gesture B" - available only as a print

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"Gesture C" - available only as a print

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"Gesture A" - available only as a print

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"Gesture B" - available only as a print

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"Gesture C" - available only as a print

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"Gesture A" - available only as a print

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"Gesture B" - available only as a print

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"Gesture C" - available only as a print

After looking at the diversity of my images, I feel I should explain how I work. I re-entered the art scene in my 50's while I was living on a boat with my two sons in Sausalito. I had no studio, so, determined to create work for sale, I used advanced figure drawing classes to both sharpen my skills, experiment with different approaches and media and produce images I thought I could sell. Advanced figure drawing classes don't have instructors. Artists attend them to hone their skills. Model fees are thus shared with the group. The format is usually shorter poses followed by longer and longer poses. One group's longest pose is 7 minutes. Some others devote several sessions to the same pose. The backgrounds suck: easels, tables, artists, etc. So I started to layer the shorter poses over each other. When one of the poses was long enough, I'd do a contour right over them, and maybe play with background colors. The work had an interesting, ambiguous quality. One piece, "Heavenly," was started in my living room and finished in Hawaii ...