Went to the Rodin Exhibition yesterday (10th Oct) at the Tate. Under-25 year olds got 5£ tickets but my student ticket was only a pound off the full price, so it was 17£ for me! Make it make sense.

Anyway the exhibit itself was great. It was fantastic to see all those sculptures up close (my cute friend here for scale) and get a sense of Rodin’s deep knowledge of anatomy, as well as where he chose to exaggerate!

I’ve always loved to draw dancers but stopped doing it recently in order to do more life drawing, and this inspired me to get back into it.

I wandered through the exhibition sketching anything that caught my eye. Particularly striking were these busts of a Japanese lady – Rodin had used her again and again as a model (and she does have a compelling face) and basically stiffed her on payment. Do better, art community! Or rather just do better, white men!