Show s I THE LIFE FIFE OF AN ARTISTS ARTIST'S MODE MOTHER EVES EVE'S COSTUME WASN'T SO IDEAL 1 B I By Manya Rudina Model Famous New York Artists Artist's A model never knows In what form she is destined to appear in the finIshed fin nn- fished work of ot the artist I found this out when asked to pose by a Japanese artist one a of those who took my address when I went to the Penguin party He Ho wanted to paint my portrait he said but when he was finished though I could recognize my features in the painting instead of myself I saw a pretty Japanese girl He had slanted raised cheekbones and my eyes ees m my turned me into a Jap girl unconsciously unconscious unconscious- ly and quite effectively He had made me a Japanese just as effectively as the Venetian Venetian- Venetian painters painters of the Renaissance when they painted Biblical subjects clothed their characters characters characters char char- in Venetian lan costumes of their I own period Even a famous English painter who Is alive today Brangwyn in his Crucifixion has a background of a Roman and grouped around the cross are workmen dressed as the ordinary British workmen of to toda today today to- to da day wit thongs below the knees I posed In succession for men of many nationalities of the Penguins but the most interesting experience was wasa a request in the late spring of that year to pose in the open air for a painter who was interested in painting sunlight sunlight sunlight sun sun- light effects upon my figure which it is impossible to do in the ordinary studio There Is not much posing in the open air In this country though in France I j I jand and particularly the small islands along the Brittany coast the artists I all summer long have their models pose In the open air My artist wanted to paint the figure against a natural background of ot trees I and stream It was an Interesting experience to toI me He had to work at a very fast I pace because all the time the sun was wasI I moving and changing the shapes of the I shadows and lights We went to Bear I mountain up the Hudson and he put putI I up for me a small tent as a dressing room He had permission to use some fenced in private property so that there j was no danger of being disturbed In order to finish the picture I to pose for a short time only on onn n successive afternoons in order that thai artist might catch the sun in the th I relative position It was a very interesting g expert and apart from some preliminary 1 LI that some wandering pasS pas 5 might disturb us I 1 liked It it all all bu buI I thing By the end of the second my back was blistered with t tand I and I 1 had to send for a small t Ids d' d store of cold creams and liniments missed several nights sleep be u the pain And I decided that posing In the lp In might be interesting and novel ibi bl had its disadvantages 0 |