"Seated Bald Man in Life Class" (20"X16", Oil on Canvas, $300)
Another early effort from the Life Class offered at Brookline High, but with another instructor instead of my favorite teacher, David Penna. This was done over the course of two classes and as I recall, the model wasn't very cooperative. He had problems with "drift", where he'd take a pose and over the course of twenty minutes or so, he'd end up in a different angle, having drifted from his original pose. He insisted that he couldn't remember where he had been to start with, and so I kept having to make corrections, especially after he'd take a break.
Anyway, his picture came out pretty well, all things considered, including his frowny-face.
The abstract background has a bit of intention to it, since it's lighter on his lit side, but also a bit of an accident, since it's standard practice to have the lit side of a model closer to the viewer. That couldn't happen because of the shape of the room, the number of people in the class, and the fact that the spotlight had to be placed where it wasn't in any of the student's eyes. Just another of the challenges of taking Adult Ed courses.
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