It may be that not all the drawings I made this weekend are really worth showing, but in the spirit of honesty I'll include even the ones where I feel that I failed to convey the particular beauty of these two young guys, whom the great Thomasina DeMaio had the generosity to pay to pose for poor art schmucks like me to draw. I thank her and I thank these two models and the other artists doing like work as well.
Starting off with Angel on Saturday. Much as I like the first watercolor of the day, seen directly above, I know it doesn't really look much like this young dancer at all, whereas the drawing at the top of the page, the hour long study, was close enough a likeness that my close friend, Thin Mar Oo, whose parents live in the same building as this young man, was able to immediately recognize him with a glance at the portrait.
These next pictures are from Sunday's session with Liam Ocean, a street juggler and hula hoop enthusiast, another kind of dancer I suppose and well worth the study. The drawings are far from perfect, but also far from worthless; and I hope to have the opportunity to make more pictures of him, and of Angel as well. Come to think of it: the two of them together would be the best of all possibilities regarding these two
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