Bonnie and Christa are twins and I hope to develop both in the same composition. Drawing two people that are so close in appearance yet different in personality has both intrigued and perplexed me since meeting them years ago. When I finally got around to asking them to pose for me and began these study drawings the fact that two physically identical people can be so different surfaced and why should it not. The personalities, the inner Light of each of us, makes what appears to be the same different. The two drawings were executed with two approaches, with Christa, the bottom drawing, being free and undefined and Bonnie above being more studied and soft. I had not planned it this way but it seemed to bear itself as the drawings developed. They were sitting next to each other but I separated them just to study each individually. Maybe it was a mistake to divide and conquer, breaking down the complexity of the drawing, thinking I would, I could, place them back together later.
I now have this image of Christa with a fluttering cape abstractly extended from her left side (Christa a superhero?) and Bonnie solidly place as a base in the corner (Bonnie the cornerstone?), so when placing the two of them back together maybe there should be a melting away from right to left, increasing in looseness and abstraction from Bonnie to Christa. First thoughts for a title 'Cape, compass or heart'.
'Model #2', sketch book drawing graphite on paper, MS2009.
