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My Short-Lived Career as an Artist's Model and Hitting the Wall as an ArtistIn my art career there came a time when I hit the wall, creatively speaking. I had run out of what I was doing. It was not so much a problem of inspiration but rather, direction. I felt I lacked depth as an artist. I signed up for a figure drawing class at Meramec Community College in St. Louis. The instructor was Bob Lewis who does paintings of women. He was a good figure drawing instructor and he introduced cubism into the instruction. Prior to that I considered myself an expressionist. The way he taught cubism was a new for me. He directed me toward the artist, Cezanne who I had not realized was a cubist. Bob explained, the way Cezanne breaks up space is through planes on the surface of his forms makes him the first cubist. Even though, I liked Cezanne, I had never seen cubism in his art as I did now. It opened new doors for me as an artist. It was a more subtle take on cubism than I saw previously. Shortly after the class ended, I posed for Bob Lewis as the subject of one of his "woman paintings". Quickly, I found that I had no future as an artist's model. It's very difficult to sit still for long periods of time while someone stares intently. I'm sorry to say that I don't think he ever finished the painting, even after seemingly months of endless posing. I gave up in frustration the idea of being an artist's model but drawing in pencil became my number one artistic expression for a few years. For examples of my drawings from that time: Blog
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