Nude study (Patreon)

A beautiful collaboration with my sculptor friend Susana Botana.

"From The Age of Bronze onwards, Rodin preferred to depict a body in motion rather than to work from a fixed, academic pose. Auguste Neyt, a young Belgian soldier whom he used as a model, remembered coming into his studio, where “I had to train myself to strike the pose. It was hardly an easy thing to do. Rodin did not want straining muscles; in fact, he loathed the academic ‘pose’… The master wanted ‘natural’ action taken from real life.” (cited by Butler)"