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tyke

As the second wave reaches the Island we grabbed a quick session before going to earth again, and what a joy it was to see the refreshed and invigorated natural phenomenon that is Tigerbelle. Her hair now long and luxurious cascading over honey coloured shoulders...It would not be fair to go on, you will all have to be patient and wait for this lot to be over. Thank you dear muse.

tyke

As the country went into a very English lockdown (do it yourself-no HMG help) we held our life drawing session with the exceptional Tigerbelle. As ever she gave us some dramatic and challenging poses. Despite her worry about the difficulties the lockdown will bring her,and all other models, she maintained her usual good humour and positive attitude. This is why we all so respect and love her. We look forward to resuming sessions with the survivors once this has passed. Best wishes to all.

tyke

Another session amid the building works but we managed to keep our precious model warm and entertained. Magnificent poses and challenges for our group, some artists driven to a frenzy of activity trying to capture the essence of this remarkable woman.

tyke

Another Saturday, outside a storm is raging, in my studio, installed by the radiator, Tigerbelle sits and later curls up on the blanket while two "fine" artists draw and paint. In three hours we each produce two images of her, and feel pleased with the results. Once again we proclaim Tigerbelle to be not only the best model around, but an inspiration...and jolly good company too!

tyke

Saturday morning and I have hours of painting the beautiful tigerbelle who is curled up by the radiator on a soft warm blanket in my studio. A hard life but I 'm prepared to suffer for my art. A great model makes it worthwhile, and there's non greater!

tyke

Saturday morning and I have hours of painting the beautiful tigerbelle who is curled up by the radiator on a soft warm blanket in my studio. A hard life but I 'm prepared to suffer for my art. A great model makes it worthwhile, and there's non greater!

tyke

Saturday morning and I have hours of painting the beautiful tigerbelle who is curled up by the radiator on a soft warm blanket in my studio. A hard life but I 'm prepared to suffer for my art. A great model makes it worthwhile, and there's non greater!

tyke

Twas a dark and stormy night, the wind gusting up to 80 and rain lashing the Island, building works left only our gallery habitable but the faithful gathered and Tigerbelle made it despite being buffeted alarmingly on the drive to the end of the Island. Such determination and enthusiasm made for a splendid evening of drawing. A great start to the year, thanks to our glorious model .

tyke

When pre xmas preps are completed what better way to escape it all than a session at home studio with the magnificent Tigerbelle. The most enjoyable hours of painting and drawing, with a little refreshment thrown in, and best of all a successful piece of work at the end. Perfect model ,perfect session, perfect results, perfect end to year! Thank you Tigerbelle, here's to more next year.

tyke

A measure of the professionalism of a model is the ability to cope with unforseen circumstances, such as arriving at the venue to find that light and heating are cut off. Such was Tigerbelle's experience last night when part of the building was without power. We ended up in a doorless gallery with a collection of heaters and a draughts from all angles. Our doughty model coped and, as always, produced a range of glorious poses, observing that "it's worse outside!" We are all very grateful to her for her determination to deliver despite the problems presented. A total star!

Netta

Tigerbelle is a fantastic model for artists. She is able to create and hold beautiful poses for us to draw. The sessions are very enjoyable and productive.

Joe B said...

Just back in through the door and still grinning from ear to ear! An absolutely fantastic shoot with Melissa and Andy at Fareham Studio was just the tonic for a pretty (absolutely dreadful!!!) rubbish week! And now a few days with the painful culling process - and it'll be tough!

Melissa is such fun to shoot with, chat to and just be around! She definitely is one of those models who makes me a better imagist.

Recommended 100, nay, 1000 times over, and I certainly hope to shoot with her again.

ChasC

Today was my second shoot with Melissa, this time at the excellent Fareham Studio. She is great fun to work with and enthusiastically runs with all the weird I come up with. She needs little direction with some great art nude poses.

Chris Davenport

First time shooting with Tigerbelle, and hopefully not the last. Really loved working with her as she made it so easy, especially as I was struggling with migraine at the time. I hope Mel found it entertaining as well, we did have a few laughs. She did not need direction from me, she just flowed from one pose to another. Thank you Tigerbelle. Thoroughly recommended.A big thanks to Andy at Fareham Studio as well, without his help today nothing would have happened.

Gray2

This was my second shoot with Tigerbelle at Fareham Studios. Once again it was a fabulous couple of hours. Melissa is so easy to work with and open to the ideas that I bring along on my trusty contact sheet. I don't think there is anything she will not try so is happy to get into some really difficult positions. She is fun to be with and the poses will just flow if you want but is really happy to be directed so a fantastic model.

As usual the time just disappeared far too quickly (note to self book a longer shoot next time!). Great company, great model so what's not to like. Thanks Melissa. Recommended!

Graham

Its all about the Light

Another superb shoot with Tigerbelle this time at her studio day, Great conversation an the ability to go from one pose to another without needing any direction, just a sheer joy to work with and is very highly reccomended. Sheer class :-)

tyke

a dark and chilly night in the Bay but in here with Tigerbelle on cracking form it was all warm and sunny...great poses and fabulous body, the great challenge is to draw well enough to do justice to this remarkable lady. And she's great company too....

strussler

Sunday's few hours with tigerbelle was, as expected, a very enjoyable and productive shoot. We were fortunate with the weather (although we were only shooting indoors) because the light was soooo obliging. I think we were both so pleased with the resulting images. I immediately set about seeing how one of my favourite shots would look printed, and I now have an A4 print of it framed and up on the wall. So I'm a happy bunny! Now I really did ought to study closer the rest of the shoot, as I know from the back of the camera that we did pretty damned well throughout :)

It was lovely to be able to invite Melissa to shoot here at my flat for this our fourth session together, and as always, Melissa is just so easy to work with. I do enjoy our relaxed and chatty shoots :D

No problem whatsoever recommending tigerbelle, she's a lovely lady, and a super model to shoot.

PhotoSimon

I have worked Tigerbelle in the past. This time rather than working on location given the time of year I arranged a studio for our shoot. As always comms prior to the day was very good. On the day of the shoot she kept me advised of arrival time for collection from the train station.

The shoot consisted of two different styles and she executed perfectly as always. Great communication throughout the shoot and the resulting images looked very good on the back of the camera.

Thank you for a great shoot. Hope to work together again in the future.

Mmmfire Photography

Another great shoot with Tigerbelle.

These shoots are always fun, always comfortable, and always have great results. Cracking model and above all, a lovely person. Can't recommend highly enough!