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I had a wonderful time Friday morning. There was a new teacher, Marie, at my drawing class filling in for Joan while she helped hang her exhibition.
I first watched her demo as she drew on a easel. Putting a grid in and then outlining in Willow charcoal. Filling in shapes in block local colour. Then adding tone. Looking at counterchange. Light against dark. After morning tea we got to work and I did mine within the remaining hour.
A photograph of fruit - still life
I filled in block shapes with local colour
I loved the immediacy of the pastel. How vibrant the colour and even texture after working with watercolour for so long. How it ties together shape, tone, colour. I think I want to buy a set. A starter set and use this in my life class and elsewhere. Woke up Saturday dreaming about it…
Covering more of the page. Test colours are below the drawing
A finished pastel drawing
Deciding that I needed to loosen up with some coloured pencil, oil pastels and a new calligraphy set I have purchased. Still working out the calligraphy set… Reading ahead and seeing that I need to buy some coloured markers. I need to investigate options and ph some art shops.
Exploring coloured media
Then finding tone and depth with sea shells.
Tone and depth in detail, A4 - 'Shell'
Tone and depth in detail, A3 - 'Shells'
Black pen contour line drawing for my lilies
Worked on lilies and a line drawing, then how to do it with colour. A little harder… There’s more to think about. I had two goes at both… I like the second go better. Think the line is stronger and the color less pretty and more working for me.
Another try, this time going for more a more calligraphy style. Maybe the background is too dark on the right?
Painted a w/c background, then lifted out parts of the vase with an inch brush and put colour in with other brush strokes.
I can only draw bodies for so long!! Starting to look at the nature topic, the exercises and the media.
Working on line with a rock-melon cut in half
Tonal exploration with lemons, conte (sticks and pencils), and pastels
Starting to play with new media - yum...
Looked through John Rayne’s ‘Complete Anatomy and Figure Drawing’ book. Took note of bones, muscles and media ideas. I am trying to look at different ways to draw each time I go to my untutored Life Class. There are some good ideas in the second part of John’s book showing different media.
Starting to think about nature as well and drawing flowers, fruit and experimenting with different media.
I think I need to get back to portraits as well and work on fabric and clothed models too. Hummm. How to do that? Maybe ask my mum!
Today I am catching my blog up with my art. Started a new topic in my OCA Drawing paper a few weeks ago.
It has taken a while for me to realise that the nice orderly fashion I went through Topic 1, ‘Mark Making’ may not work here. For one, my Life drawing class does what it wills, and i just fit into drawing how that model is posed at the time. So my papers are going to be all over the place. I find i am more nervous drawing in my book I have set aside for assignment work. Far freer on a loose sheet, as I tell myself it doesn’t matter. This can be discarded!
Today I went through Topic 3 requirements and they are all to be on loose paper. So! I am shifting my process of how I collect my Topic 2 Assignment work together. It may be some of it in my A3 Assignment book and some will be loose. And for Topic 3; ‘Nature’, it will all be loose. I better find my old black A2 folio case and empty it to start using for OCA…
