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I am the monitor for a Thursday life drawing studio at the AVAA facility at 38th and Home Ave. in Austin. Sessions last from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each Thurs, consisting of 8-10 one-minute gesture poses followed by a single long pose for the duration of the session, with breaks every 25 minutes for the model. Poses are "portrait-friendly." Oils and odorless solvents are allowed in this session,

I coordinate a life drawing group on Sunday afternoons from 2-5 pm at the Austin Visual Arts Association (AVAA). Find out more at the Austin Life Drawing Meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/figuredrawing-188/

Flipnotics 1pm-3pm. See you there! Call/text with any Qs. 216-1035

Also, Anne Blair Brown, Rusty Jones, Julie Chapman, and Don Sahli are lined up for Fall Workshops. Paint in the Texas Hill Country this Fall - www.wimberleyartistworkshops.com .

Austin Visual Arts Association life drawing studios are Wednesday afternoons, Thursday mornings, Thursday nights, Sunday afternoons and Monday nights.

Lately I've been having fun drawing with the Zen Brush app on the iPad at Naked Lunch and Dr. Sketchy.

http://theartdepartment.org/pods/atx Join my studio's open figure session every Saturday from 2pm-5pm. $6. 503 Neches downtown at the corner of 5th and Neches next to the Hilton :)

The work of the artist is an exploration to see and feel life with lucid vision and a pure heart – so much so, that the art has no choice but to be exciting, unique, powerful and sensual. (Robert Sturman)

""With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings. Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures."- Rainer Maria Rilke

Our next session features Ruby Joule on January 6th 5-8pm http://www.austinsketchy.com/2012/12/january-6th-ruby-joule/