ABOUT PASH'S PATREON PAGE
This site has been created for artists wanting to enlarge your artistic community, share work from our Life+ Drawing groups, help make decisions about what we do together, get sneak peeks behind-the-scenes in my studio, and offer support for all of the work that goes into our weekly experiences together. I'm also making the site available to friends and others who just want to follow my curious career and to support its good cause, which is primarily to inspire, entertain, and be a muse to visual artists. A warm THANK YOU to all who participate! You make it worthwhile and I so appreciate you.

ABOUT PASH & MODELING
As an artists' model, my professional life includes working as a mask maker and an improvisational dancer and performance artist. It is my pleasure to incorporate masks and also to bring elements of emotion, movement, dance and theater into my modeling work. With a Master's degree in Communication and decades of training in Person Centered psychology and expressive art, I try to emphasize the emotional and psychological presence and living artistry within the human body. In my late thirties, figure modeling became one of several professional passions including writing, graphic design, and not taking myself too seriously. Like many women and others, I wanted to understand from the inside why we may often feel inadequate on the outside and seldom overcome our socialized, media-image myth of "beauty." My solution was confronting this head-on by figure modeling for professional and non-professional artists who often capture an essence of life beyond surface external forms. Now in my mid fifties--without surgical interventions or tattoo enhancements--I try to model our natural and common inner beauty. I share this in order to help you express, experiment with, season, and enjoy your best talents when we work together.

HOBBIES
My hobbies include contact improvisational dance, hiking, yoga, watching Bollywood Hindu mythological TV series and films, and reading and discussing various wisdom teachings online with my extended family. I also spend a crazy amount of time thinking about and planning my weekly modeling sessions, communicating with attending artists, and putting together the weekly Art of Pash Eblast.

ENVIRONMENT
My family and I care deeply about the environment and encourage others to do the same. I'm acutely aware of how much paper artists use in our sessions as well as the toxicity of many, if not most, art supplies. To help offset these issues, we donate monthly to Eden Reforestation Projects, which plants trees all over the world. There are a number of green art supply options, some of which you can read about on my Art of Pash Greener Art page. I drive an electric car that is powered with solar panels and endeavor to buy only recycled or reused props. If any versions of these choices appeal to you, check out The Sustainability Alliance to learn how your business--even a simple home-operated one, like ours-- can become Certified as a Sustainable Business (our business, Alive Today Enterprises, has been honored by receiving the Sustainable/Gold Level Award from the Alliance.)

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NO REFUNDS. Sorry, it's just too complicated and time consuming.
Honestly, I've never had a problem with any artist ever, but I'll say this anyway: Please be respectful and do not harass me emotionally, sexually or otherwise in any way. (FYI, I'm happily married for numerous decades.) :-)
GRATITUDE I cannot overstate how much your presence and support means to me. Truly!!!

Credits: Profile portrait photo/screenshot from a short pose session. Cover photo by Alba Elena,