Joy Unconfined

I’m going to cheat. I don’t have a favorite HNT of my very own.

They’re all somewhat different.

Instead, here’s a link to all my HNTs on this blog.

I do have to admit I’m somewhat partial to the one of the drawing. Taking on art modeling this year was a brave new thing for me, and I’m glad I did it.

Here are a few more drawings done in one of the classes I sat for.

Ok, so maybe that’s my favorite HNT… though no specific PHOTO of it, just… that I did it. I almost wish I had photo-journaled each experience. Like the time I stood precariously atop a table on top of another table on top of the model stand, stark naked, with black tulle net piled on my head, obscuring my face… so that students could deal with foreshortening, light and shadow, and the nude figure all in one go.

Or one of the supine poses I did where I fell asleep on the model stand, curled around with my hip one way, my arms splayed another way, my face turned to one side, knees bent… I got up with a stiff neck, but I’d had a nice nap.

Or maybe the day I posed in several different ways with different props. One, I was in lotus pose with a large shallow bowl in my lap that held a lighted candle. I WISH I had snapped shots of some the interpretations of that one. Or the one where I lay on my side, blindfolded, my hands and legs bound behind me. Some of those interpretations were pretty intense… and these were beginner students!

Yes, I think that’s my favorite HNT of 2008, though there are almost no photos of any of it. My favorite baring of myself was in the service of providing the muse for the canvas to capture the creativity of others.

And it was certainly a large part of my journey in the Year of Self-Redefinition.

On another note… Go to this web site and vote for Red Snapper. (she’s on the top right with the green feathers). She’s a burlesquer I admire greatly, who I’ve seen dance more than once. She is both smolderingly sexy and cute as a button, and *I* think she deserves a chance to strut her stuff at Viva Las Vegas. So… go vote for her. Trust my judgement. I’m good at these things. Just vote.

Thankyouhaveaniceday.

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