Summer Showers Photo-set: Draw x Floorlength Frankie (Patreon)

As June contained a 5th weekend we thought we'd add in a special bonus photo-set for all of our supporters! While Frankie was staying here at the Mawddach Residency she posed for an online life class in the shower and given the popularity of her life drawing session in the bath we put together a two-part collaborative series shot around the house. The first part of the series is here on the Draw Patreon and the second set of photos is hosted on Tier 2 of Frankie's Patreon for her supporters. 

While it wasn't made in response to a single reference this photoset was shot with the history of great bathroom-themed artworks in mind. Degas's pastels of bathers, like his 1886 work The Tub provide a context for the bathroom as subject, while Bonnard's painting Baignoire regularly comes to mind.  Marina Cemmick's man in bath drawings use the bath as a frame for the figure - a themed that cropped up in our initial life drawing session - while Frankie's poses pressed against the shower door recall Jenny Saville's Closed Contact series of figures pressed against glass. The toothbrushing poses were taken with the paintings of saccharine strangeness of John Currin paintings in mind. We very much look forward to seeing what you make in response to this set on images and we hope to expand the series further in future, so watch this space.  

Edgar Degas, The Tub

Pierre Bonnard, Baignoire

Jenny Saville, Closed Contact

John Currin, Blonde Angel

John Currin, Thanksgiving

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About the model

• Here is a bath themed playlist we put together for Frankie's bath themed life drawing session. 
• You can follow Frankie's modelling on Instagram HERE
• You can find portrait recordings of Frankie HERE and HERE
• You can find Frankie's Magritte themed life drawing replay HERE and her bath themed session HERE 
• Find Frankie's clothed, portait and life photo-sets by following the links.
• Frankie is ringmistress of the Drawing Circus and is in most of our Drawing Circus reference image HERE
• Frankie has more reference photos available on her Patreon HERE

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Use the Draw Patreon Navigator to find any of our past photosets and take a look at our blogs on how to gather, manipulate and translate photo reference.

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• Share these pictures with anybody else – they are between you and us
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Thanks!