It’s 2018 and we need to call time on life drawing groups that operate too much along the lines of the male gaze. To be clear, while this is about what heterosexual men typically fantasise about, so ingrained in our society’s psyche is this paradigm (patriarchy has been dominant for the last several thousand years)Continue reading “The Male Gaze in Life Drawing”
Category Archives: Male
Spirited Sound, Love and Life
I want to begin a while back, because this road has been a long journey. This year has been more challenging, but also finally a turning point – in my art, with Spirited Bodies, and in my love life. It all happens at once, yet in stages. I get challenged about why I am sharingContinue reading “Spirited Sound, Love and Life”
Arts For All; & all about the Man!
Returning from a workshop of ours I mused that we are teaching people how to be naked! It ought to be natural. It is! Today I took a Spirited Body to work and I don’t just mean my own. James couldn’t make any of our workshops but through emailing I could tell he was prettyContinue reading “Arts For All; & all about the Man!”
Guestblog: Contrasting Worlds – Secret Life Model
I live in at least 2 worlds – World 1 where nudity is required, and where the use of a gown is the only veil to a complete acceptance of a naked body in a room of clothed observers. It’s non-judgmental – fat or thin, white or black, hairy or shaved, anything goes and observersContinue reading “Guestblog: Contrasting Worlds – Secret Life Model”
Guestblog: Male Perspective & the ‘Naked Date’
It struck me as odd that Miss Bunting – a sexual animal who enjoys the company of men, had devised Spirited Bodies with her friends as exclusively female. I know there were good reasons for this but I also think that the aim of encouraging naked confidence is relevant for both men and women. SoContinue reading “Guestblog: Male Perspective & the ‘Naked Date’”
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