Saucy!
Last night I had the extremely cool experience of posing as a nude model for an art class in figure drawing. Sadly, there were only 4 students there, so I didn't pull much money in--which my spouse kinda groused about--but it was worth it to me. For some reason I had imagined the class space to be a lot bigger. When I walked iin, I was a little taken aback by the small size of the room, by the intimacy of it, I'd say it was maybe equal to a good sized high school classroom? But I soon got over it. The teacher was lovely and the smart side of bubbly. Younger than me (everyone is these days), but seemingly with a head on her shoulders.
I did some one-minute poses--thinking ok, I'm going to be all dynamic and stuff!--and it was difficult. I got too dynamic! At first I was htinking of bodybuilding poses, which worked. But then it was time for the five-minute poses. I wanted to get stretchy and did a variant of the yoga warrior pose (I think I'm naming that right) and I held it for five minutes--a lot more difficult than I had anticipated. Eventually we did a couple of fifteen-minute poses. By then I had learned, and it was the stool for me, and a slumped posture--laced hands gripping my shin, heels up on the rungs of the stool. On this the students were doing high contrast, so they got lots of rolls to work on their highlights and shading with! The other pose was easier yet, crossed arms over my breasts, hands on opposing shoulders. The there was a break, and the last pose was forty-five minutes of me lying down, twisted, my shoulders flat, my hips over to the left. This, after thirty minutes, started to hurt. My fault, but it's only inexperience.
What was really interesting was to look at the different sketches and to see the interpretations. I wish I'd seen the earlier sketches (gun show, anyone?) but no such luck, and I was too shy to ask. But the later ones I got to see. Yeah, they made me look more Renoir than Bouguereau, but that's cool. It was still really exciting.
I got to choose from the art teacher's sketches that she'd done, and picked the one she'd done of me lying down. It's in a nice sepia--a pastel, I think? Or does graphite come in sepia? She sprayed it with fixer and after I scan it, I'm getting it framed.