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Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Perspectives on Figure Modeling/Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship)
...critic Grace Glueck has called "the elusive human body of the model."   There are several differences between a model and a sitter in relation to an artist.  First, and almost most obvious, …
30 Nov, 2011
 
Modeling and Sexuality (2) (News & Updates/New Articles)
...l arousal I had worried about was neither as intense nor as frequent as I had feared.  I have once been invited by a married couple to make pictures of their lovemaking.  This was a mo …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Drawing People Whole: Portraiture vs. Figure Drawing (News & Updates/New Articles)
...elf portrait, or Bach’s, Bist du bei mir ( “If you are with me, I will go gladly to my death”) included in the collection he compiled for his wife, Notebook for Anna Magdalena.  For me, a p …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Sexuality (1) (News & Updates/New Articles)
Many people are concerned about modeling and sexual expression.  For many years I worried about this, even after I started modeling, and I still recognize it, in myself and in others, as a …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Life-drawing: Fondness is Key (News & Updates/New Articles)
One of the things I have felt since I first began drawing people, and then modeling for them, is that I do best when I am fond of the people I am working with.  I want to be able to admire them, …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Fighting and Loving (News & Updates/New Articles)
Since prehistoric times, loving and fighting are the two things that have meant most to people, both in doing them and in remembering.  There are why we developed art, poetry, music and drama: to …
28 Mar, 2011
 
Save Stored Energy Until We Need It (News & Updates/New Articles)
...etimes considered religious, sometimes considered “mystical”:  it always involves singing, dancing, prayer, until you get yourself worn out.  At that point, you ought to be healed.  …
14 Jan, 2011
 
Modeling for Miniatures (News & Updates/New Articles)
...en following a workshop on sculpting miniatures taught by Paris Alexander at The Artspace in Raleigh, NC in Summer 2010. “I have three of you on my kitchen table in blue.”  Over the last mont …
14 Jan, 2011
 
What If I Don’t Fit (News & Updates/New Articles)
...t me to his office, and told me that I would have to leave, because people in a parish would find me uncomfortable to be with.  His judgment devastated me, chiefly because he was letting me know …
14 Jan, 2011
 
“I Feel Pretty” (News & Updates/New Articles)
...eople who would share skills with each other.  Everyone in such a group would have some experience (we are looked at from the time of our birth, and we are felt from conception on); so each …
14 Jan, 2011
 
Recognize and Remember (News & Updates/New Articles)
...:  This writing refers to open workshops sessions in Life Drawing at The Art Space in Raleigh, NC in 2010. …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (3) (News & Updates/New Articles)
...the only way in which I can be new.  I find modeling a special “how” for all of this at once.  Drawing people nude can have this newness also, if I take care to keep myself working …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (2) (News & Updates/New Articles)
... unless I were eternally growing.  To me, perhaps, this is the theological insight of the French theologian Theilhard de Chardin:  A “stopped God” doesn’t make sense.  Endle …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (News & Updates/New Articles)
...e so far.  I tend to be frightened that I won’t do things right, but I have greater confidence in myself than other people have in me.  I trust people to make good use of what I am a …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Poems to Model With (2) (News & Updates/New Articles)
...Somewhere I have never traveled,   gladly beyond any imagining   your eyes have their silence. In your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,   or which I cannot touch beca …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Presentation (News & Updates/New Articles)
...always more with than it is for.   I think it is important to keep that in mind, from conceiving a baby to burying the dead—and beyond.  If I keep my personal relationships in m …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Three Practices Together (News & Updates/New Articles)
In my own experience, I have put three practices together:  life drawing, figure modeling and giving workshops in both.  I can work best with any of these when I am working with all three, c …
01 Jul, 2010
 
Life-Modeling as a Business and an Art (News & Updates/Life-Modeling Workshop)
...r the modeling is.     In this set of workshops, models at different levels of experience will work with each other to share insights, experience and expectations so as to increase …
29 Jun, 2010
 
Workshop Schedule (News & Updates/Life-Modeling Workshop)
...ess    •    Some don’ts    •    Financial records    •    Contracts    •  & …
30 Apr, 2010
 
Introduction to the Web Edition (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
...contact information.  As far as I can see, what I have written covers the moral and practical principles that artists and models need to follow in carrying out their working relationships.  …
30 Jan, 2010
 
List of Illustrations (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
Beth Kilmer by Hugh Kilmer Fran by Norm Kennedy Nancy Zola by Jenny McNamara Norm Kennedy by Jada West Composite by Lori Perbeck Theresa Sinko by Hugh Kilmer Hugh Kilmer by Lisa Moran …
30 Jan, 2010
 
Acknowledgements for Original Text (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
...dall, Stephanie Silvia, David Utecht, Theresa Sinko and many others who have offered suggestions and encouragement. Thanks to Susan Shaftan and Paul Drexel of Hudson Artists at Home and Abroad, for s …
13 Jan, 2010
 
Actual Income Calculator (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Appendices)
Use our Actual Income Calculator to calculate exactly what your hourly income is on a job, after travel time and expenses. …
13 Jan, 2010
 
Website History (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
...e community group that had agreed to print it. In 1977, I rewrote it from memory, and have used it since that time as a rough set of guidelines for models and their artists. At the point of original …
13 Jan, 2010
 
The Artist-Model Relationship (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
...the first approach described above: models and artists are advised to maintain a "professional" distance from each other, for fear that they might allow a personal attraction which develops to beco …
13 Jan, 2010
 
Preface to Original Text (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
... to the visual artist what Shakespeare is to the performing artist. His rich and complex text is at once beautiful and homely, just as our human form. Nothing is as exciting and marvelous, and ever …
13 Jan, 2010
 
Life Drawing (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
... "need" defense and excuses because our society feels discomfort, and even guilt, at the nakedness (including especially the open sexual character) of the models. Drawing people does offer good pra …
13 Jan, 2010
 
What if/when you decide to stop being a model... (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Appendices)
... with you; continue making use of opportunities for clothes - optional recreation. D) Keep references to your work as a model in your standard Resume; hold on to your modeling portfolio: for t …
12 Jan, 2010
 
Insurance Plans (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Appendices)
People working on their own may have difficulty affording insurance.  Most self-employed workers are able to deduct their health insurance premiums from their Federal taxable income, providing th …
12 Jan, 2010
 
31. Practising Together (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Advancement in the Field)
Modeling is a performing art; usually it is a lonely one. As withacting, singing, and dancing, however, it can he improved by groupattention. Even solo performers work with teachers, do recitalstogeth …
20 Dec, 2009
 
30. Forming a Group (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Advancement in the Field)
... artist or workshop may be able to help you develop sucha group, or find one that is already in existence near you. Make surethat one person within your association will be able to takeassignments and …
20 Dec, 2009
 
32. Social Contacts (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Advancement in the Field)
...ng brings a person, naked, into public contact with otherpeople, all of whom are clothed. The discrepancy between clothednessand nakedness sets up an artificial separation which tends to becontinually …
19 Dec, 2009
 
28. Finding Modeling Assignments (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
...niversity art departments can be reached the same way.Some of these people already work with model agencies.  Ifso, ask for the names, addresses, and phone numbers ofcoordinators for these agenci …
18 Dec, 2009
 
27. Interview (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
...ls regarding a session.  If the interview is direct, be sure tobring your resume and portfolio, once you have them prepared.  Makesure that you become familiar with the scope of your particu …
18 Dec, 2009
 
26. Portfolio (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
...bring them with you to modeling interviews.  A coupleof professional photographs should also be included, even if you donot model for photographs.  Credit the artists.  Many artists wil …
18 Dec, 2009
 
25. Resume and Business Card (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
... resume slanted toward modeling assignments.  Thisresume should stress your education and experience inperforming and in people-related activities.  It shouldstress skills (ballroom dancing, …
18 Dec, 2009
 
20. Practicing Poses (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Professional Suggestions)
...angle.  There is a 3-stage growthin development of a comfortable attitude.  First is self-conciousnessin any pose, but posing anyway, followed by comfort in a growingnumber of non-revealing …
18 Dec, 2009
 
17. Burnout (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Some Don'ts)
...y in your work.If you feel burnout coming on, take a break for a week or two -even if this offers financial difficulty.  You are likely to have afresh perspective when you get back to modeling - …
18 Dec, 2009
 
29. Financial Records (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
For two reasons, it is good to keep track of income and expensesrelated to modeling assignments.A) To make sure that records are straight for tax purposes.B) To make sure that your modeling assignment …
18 Dec, 2009
 
13. Group Poses (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
...le), needs to be respected and accepted.Posing nude with someone else is basically an intimate experience,if it is meaningful at all, and must have advance preparation on thepart of willing models.&nb …
18 Dec, 2009
 
10. Models and Artists: Terms of Address (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
...odels can follow the same system in addressing artistsand group leaders (e.g. instructors).  To increase recognition,interest, and respect, models can introduce themselves by full nameat some poi …
18 Dec, 2009
 
8. Breaks and How to Use Them (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
...hould be a short break (about five minutes long),every twenty minutes, to help artists and models toconcentrate properly, to change position, and to get afresh perspective.B)  It is useful to hav …
18 Dec, 2009
 
7. Holding Poses (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
...settle into it.First take a pose, one you can be comfortable with. If apose you take turns out to be uncomfortable, change position.B)  In long poses, try to balance weight evenly, and be sure to …
18 Dec, 2009
 
24. Other Things to Bring (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Accessories)
...gs can be purchased atspecialty lingerie shops in most metropolitan areas; leotardsare available at dance supply shops.E)  A wind-up timer, so you can time poses yourself.F)  Teabags, instan …
18 Dec, 2009
 
23. Glasses, Jewels, Body Hair, and Other Decorations (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Accessories)
...nt from gettingundressed for taking a bath or for going to bed.  "Costumes" reveal,accent, and conceal; the modeling costume - nakedness - is designedprimarily for revelation.  Decorations w …
18 Dec, 2009
 
21. Furniture and Appliances (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Accessories)
A)  If the room is at all chilly, you ought to have a heater; afan may be appropriate in hot weather.  If you can't get warm enough, put on a few clothes for posing: things will change.B)&nb …
18 Dec, 2009
 
19. Types of Poses (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Professional Suggestions)
...e these poses very interestingindeed.C)  Idealized poses: the kind of poses we expect to find inancient Greek statues or in Renaissance paintings.D)  Character poses: these poses express moo …
18 Dec, 2009
 
15. When Not to Continue With an Artist or Workshop (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Some Don'ts)
...al or group does not take the sessionseriously (sometimes people are "too busy" with conversatiorto concentrate on art work).C)  If you feel that, for some reason, your professional orpersonal re …
18 Dec, 2009
 
14. When Not to Sign a Model Release (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Some Don'ts)
... also.B)  If you are not provided with a copy of the signed release.C)  If you are not convinced that the photographer's work willrepresent you in a way that you approve.  This matterin …
18 Dec, 2009
 
12. Unexpected Visitors (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
... best; one of them by far theworst.1)  Ask the contact please not to take part in the session, sinceyour  relationship is in other areas of life.  This is honestand fully respectable.2) …
18 Dec, 2009
 
9. Exercises (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
A regular course of exercises can help you gain greater controlof your body, especially for moving poses, stretched poses, and longposes.  Yoga is especially helpful for long poses. …
18 Dec, 2009
 
11. Sexual Stirrings (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
During drawing sessions, a model may experience sexualstirrings.  The more intense a session is, the more likely it is thatthey will occur, as part of the overall intensification of theexperience …
18 Dec, 2009
 
6. Length of Sessions (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
...t, becauseneither can get "all the way into it."  For models, it is likely notto provide enough income to make it worthwhile, unless it is veryclose to home, and does not interrupt other activiti …
18 Dec, 2009
 
4. Modeling as a Base for a Broader Career (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Basics)
Most people who model do not consider modeling their primarycareer, but model to increase their income while they are trying todevelop careers in other fields.  Good modeling itself, however, is …
18 Dec, 2009
 
2. Model's Rights (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Basics)
...rsonal respect.B)  Adequate payment (about fifteen to twenty dollars an hour, in the area ofRaleigh, NC in 2010): negotiations should be completedbefore a session starts.C)  No photograph will be ta …
18 Dec, 2009
 
1. Who Should Model? (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Basics)
...nbsp; It is helpful for development ofself-image, and correction of minor physical and emotionalimbalances.  It is a good way of making friends and of gettinginvolved with groups of people who ar …
08 Dec, 2009
 
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Menu)
...critic Grace Glueck has called "the elusive human body of the model."   There are several differences between a model and a sitter in relation to an artist.  First, and almost most obvious, …
30 Nov, 2011
 
Modeling and Sexuality (2) (Menu)
...l arousal I had worried about was neither as intense nor as frequent as I had feared.  I have once been invited by a married couple to make pictures of their lovemaking.  This was a mo …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Drawing People Whole: Portraiture vs. Figure Drawing (Menu)
...elf portrait, or Bach’s, Bist du bei mir ( “If you are with me, I will go gladly to my death”) included in the collection he compiled for his wife, Notebook for Anna Magdalena.  For me, a p …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Sexuality (1) (Menu)
Many people are concerned about modeling and sexual expression.  For many years I worried about this, even after I started modeling, and I still recognize it, in myself and in others, as a …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Life-drawing: Fondness is Key (Menu)
One of the things I have felt since I first began drawing people, and then modeling for them, is that I do best when I am fond of the people I am working with.  I want to be able to admire them, …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Fighting and Loving (Menu)
Since prehistoric times, loving and fighting are the two things that have meant most to people, both in doing them and in remembering.  There are why we developed art, poetry, music and drama: to …
28 Mar, 2011
 
Save Stored Energy Until We Need It (Menu)
...etimes considered religious, sometimes considered “mystical”:  it always involves singing, dancing, prayer, until you get yourself worn out.  At that point, you ought to be healed.  …
14 Jan, 2011
 
Modeling for Miniatures (Menu)
...en following a workshop on sculpting miniatures taught by Paris Alexander at The Artspace in Raleigh, NC in Summer 2010. “I have three of you on my kitchen table in blue.”  Over the last mont …
14 Jan, 2011
 
What If I Don’t Fit (Menu)
...t me to his office, and told me that I would have to leave, because people in a parish would find me uncomfortable to be with.  His judgment devastated me, chiefly because he was letting me know …
14 Jan, 2011
 
“I Feel Pretty” (Menu)
It seems reasonable to suppose that most people who choose to model for artists begin with a feeling that they are worthwhile to look at.  This is true, but not necessarily in a way that is evide …
14 Jan, 2011
 
Recognize and Remember (Menu)
  There are two things that I want to stress in working with models, and I think that both are important.  I want to recognize people when I have seen them before, and I want to remember the …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (3) (Menu)
  Maybe the only impossibility that is real is repetition.  The only reality that is not new is newness.    At the same time, “novelty” is not new, because doing something …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (2) (Menu)
   I have worked with many subjects, and with many students, from nursery school into graduate school.  As I have studied “teaching people,” I have learned that the “who-being-tau …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (Menu)
  I got my first assignment as a teacher when I graduated from high school at sixteen years old and was asked by my pastor to prepare a ten-year old girl for her first communion.   I wa …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Poems to Model With (2) (Menu)
  The third poem is one I especially like to use when posing along with a person I am particularly fond of.   I have used this working with several different people in different situati …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Presentation (Menu)
Very often I have heard people say that to model, all you need to do is take off your clothes and be there.  I think that modeling especially involves self-presentation.  …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Three Practices Together (Menu)
In my own experience, I have put three practices together:  life drawing, figure modeling and giving workshops in both.  I can work best with any of these when I am working with all three, c …
01 Jul, 2010
 
Life-Modeling as a Business and an Art (Menu)
Life-Modeling as a Business and an Art: Workshop Description    For many years, people who work as models for artists and for artist groups have been expected to rely on self-training.& …
29 Jun, 2010
 
Workshop Schedule (Menu)
Session One    •    The Art    •    Life-drawing in art    •    Who “should” model  &nbs …
30 Apr, 2010
 
Introduction to the Web Edition (Menu)
30 Jan, 2010
 
List of Illustrations (Menu)
30 Jan, 2010
 
Acknowledgements for Original Text (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
Actual Income Calculator (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
Website History (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
The Artist-Model Relationship (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
Preface to Original Text (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
Life Drawing (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
What if/when you decide to stop being a model... (Menu)
12 Jan, 2010
 
Insurance Plans (Menu)
12 Jan, 2010
 
Income Calculator (Menu)
You can prepare a financial cost-benefit analysis for each session: …
09 Jan, 2010
 
31. Practising Together (Menu)
20 Dec, 2009
 
30. Forming a Group (Menu)
20 Dec, 2009
 
32. Social Contacts (Menu)
19 Dec, 2009
 
28. Finding Modeling Assignments (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
27. Interview (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
26. Portfolio (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
25. Resume and Business Card (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
20. Practicing Poses (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
17. Burnout (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
29. Financial Records (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
13. Group Poses (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
10. Models and Artists: Terms of Address (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
8. Breaks and How to Use Them (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
7. Holding Poses (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
24. Other Things to Bring (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
23. Glasses, Jewels, Body Hair, and Other Decorations (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
21. Furniture and Appliances (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
19. Types of Poses (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
15. When Not to Continue With an Artist or Workshop (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
14. When Not to Sign a Model Release (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
12. Unexpected Visitors (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
9. Exercises (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
11. Sexual Stirrings (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
6. Length of Sessions (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
4. Modeling as a Base for a Broader Career (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
2. Model's Rights (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
1. Who Should Model? (Menu)
...nbsp; It is helpful for development ofself-image, and correction of minor physical and emotionalimbalances.  It is a good way of making friends and of gettinginvolved with groups of people who ar …
08 Dec, 2009
 
Hugh Kilmer (Contact / Contacts)
Hugh Kilmer, Author, Miscellaneous info …
 
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Category Blog)
...critic Grace Glueck has called "the elusive human body of the model."   There are several differences between a model and a sitter in relation to an artist.  First, and almost most obvious, …
 
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Category Blog)
...critic Grace Glueck has called "the elusive human body of the model."   There are several differences between a model and a sitter in relation to an artist.  First, and almost most obvious, …
 
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Category List)
...critic Grace Glueck has called "the elusive human body of the model."   There are several differences between a model and a sitter in relation to an artist.  First, and almost most obvious, …
 
Advancement in the Field (Category List)
 
 
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