From the Art Director's View

Hello All,

This is my first blog entry. I am Maureen Johnson the Art Director for Live Model Books an independent publishing house. As the Art Director, I select the poses, style the models and the the setting and last but not least direct (and motivate when necessary : ) ) the models. The poses I select vary in style and many are based on input from our customers. The poses range from everyday, dynamic, clothed, unclothed, and classical poses inspired by great figurative art works.

I frequently use Rodin for inspiration when planning a modeling session. During one session with two of our art models Jesse and Shandra I had the opportunity to direct some very beautiful couples poses. Including our rendition of The Kiss (jesseshandra015) which had some interesting challenges, because Jesse and Shandra are of similar height it was necessary to raise Jesse up higher on the bench to achieve the needed angle which is interesting because in the original sculpture it is the exact opposite, the female model is raised up because she is much smaller than the male model. View the sculpture using this wikipedia link to The Kiss to compare. They also modeled Eternal Idol (jesseshandra014) and Eternal Spring (jesseshandra018). If you are interested in seeing these poses please visit the website to check them out and I would love to hear what you think http://www.posespace.com/posetool/.

Because Rodin is one of my favorite sculptors, many of the poses on our website http://www.posespace.com/posetool/ and in our books Art Models (ximon009) Danaid, Art Models 2 (mandy017) The Implorer,(jesse021, jesse021O[verhead] and shandra020) inspired by the Fallen Caryatid and in Art Models 3 (jesseshandra015) The Kiss are all inspired by this great Artist.