This reminds me of when I was about 21 years old. I came from an artistic family but was living in a very conservative community, it still is.
My older brother was a Motörhead, we’d met a driver/owner and had become crew members on an international formula race car team. The owner-driver was a commercial graphic illustrator with an art degree of St. Louis University. I was a photographer for my college publications and freelancing at the time.
One day I was talking about how I thought my college was putting its arts major students at a dsadvantage because, as a catholic school, there were no figure studies classes. I must’ve remarked I found the idea somewhat erotic too.
Tom, our driver, remarked to me; “When I had to take figures class on the first day when she disrobed I thought this is wonderful it can’t be happening! Then in the days following that feeling completely went away. It became the struggle to do her justice and express myself on paper and canvas. Then, for the rest of college nude models and figure studies were just another part of the job”
This reminds me of when I was about 21 years old. I came from an artistic family but was living in a very conservative community, it still is.
My older brother was a Motörhead, we’d met a driver/owner and had become crew members on an international formula race car team. The owner-driver was a commercial graphic illustrator with an art degree of St. Louis University. I was a photographer for my college publications and freelancing at the time.
One day I was talking about how I thought my college was putting its arts major students at a dsadvantage because, as a catholic school, there were no figure studies classes. I must’ve remarked I found the idea somewhat erotic too.
Tom, our driver, remarked to me; “When I had to take figures class on the first day when she disrobed I thought this is wonderful it can’t be happening! Then in the days following that feeling completely went away. It became the struggle to do her justice and express myself on paper and canvas. Then, for the rest of college nude models and figure studies were just another part of the job”