The gestures of the third session with Lady P

 These are the one minute sketches we start every session with.  If the others would be open to it I'd love to do an entire session of nothing but gestures.  Probably be a bit tough on the model to keep coming up with poses, though.

The long pose that turned into a bribe...

 This drawing is going to the model so that we can secure her for our next session.

Red leg

 I saw that knee and knew I had to draw it.  I switched locations and grabbed my charcoal pencil and thought, no... I need to render this in conté!  I grabbed the only terra cotta piece I had and, to my utter dismay, found that it was not a piece of true conté!  It was that pastel / chalk / less than authentic chunk of disappointment!  A wasted opportunity.  It was such a great knee...

A little shoulder

 Really liked what was going on with her right shoulder and scapula.  Five minutes ain't a whole lot of time, though.

Some gestures of a patient model

 Just gestures.  Move along...

45 minutes and I was able to put her face in

 Boy, this one really ran me through the wringer.  Couldn't get her head proportionate to the figure I had already blocked in and done some significant work on.  I think I pulled it together in the end although there are more than a few areas I'd love to have had more time to work out.  C'est la vie.

No face

 I took a little grief from someone I have never met about my choice of what to draw from this pose.  So be it, if I want to focus on the wrist that's my call!