“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You have begun to appreciate the workings of your psychic self in your paintings, but you are only beginning. And yes, the entire figures of your people will also emerge, both in movement and repose, and you will be surprised, again, at how well the characterization will show itself through the gestures and even folds of the cloth.

You will be giving life and vitality to the stock human figure that is often used, so that the hands are as alive as the face, and the figures seem caught in motion, begun but never completed.

When you become involved in the figure work however, make sure that you allow yourself special freedom in the area of the upper thighs.

You will make them, whole and entire, as well as your heads also, you see. And as they emerge full figure so will you emerge in your stature as an artist, and in confidence.

(I explained now to Jane that the material tonight was very good, and that I hadn’t given her clues to it, etc., especially as regards the color experiments, characterization, the full-figure work, the essentials required for drawing the full figure convincingly, etc. She did know about my plans to do full figures, however.