Felix D'Eon

Diary ~ Sunday at the Beach #1

March, 2006

 

I hire a model every Sunday starting at around 10 until 6 to 8 at night, usually for a single long pose (this is when I do most of my classical nude drawings, the large charcoals on this website), but today was so beautiful that when the model showed up, I suggested that we spend the day at the beach painting instead. The model readily agreed. So Jesse and I took ourselves off to Baker Beach here in San Francisco, a nude beach near the Golden Gate Bridge. My thought was to spend most of the day painting the nude in nature, so I brought my pencils and watercolors, and did a few quick paintings of Jesse right there on the beach. After we finished painting, I took him for a photoshoot among the rocks - these are the photos that follow.

We put on our clothes to climb the rocks, since they seemed dangerous to climb in the nude; the tide was so high we couldn't go very far, so in the photo above he is undressing again on the rocks above the beach, and posing among them below.

While we were drawing a handsome man who had been sitting with his friends on the sand near us came up and asked what we were doing. He loved my drawing, so I asked him if he would like to model as well; he got on his knees and joined Jesse on the ground and pretended to rub sun block onto his back, while I drew the scene from my rock, his friends watching from the background. He introduced himself as Jason; he was a college student in his early twenties, studying acting at a local junior college. He wasn’t completely comfortable with me taking pictures of him, but he loved the idea of being painted, so he offered to come back and model again in my studio. The pictures below are both of him, the one on the bottom while he was playing volleyball with his friends (thats what he was doing when he came over to talk to us)