[image_with_animation image_url=”9462″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the second part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, almost all of them are new to figure drawing.
Rather than learning one style, I offer a completely different stylistic approach every session. We’ve done straight line measures, site sizing, envelopes, kites, mass shapes, shadows, gestures, contours, volume, cross-hatching, and more. Today I’m posting a few “Chocolate Bar Drawings,” so named because the side of conte was used, and the brown looked like it was made from a bar of chocolate.
For 30 years Stuart Shils painted urban skylines and tuscan landscapes, painting outside or by looking through the window. He simpliefied the landscape into bright, vague, and subtle studies of color. Now he’s at that same window, his view turned inward, making collage, camera and light projections. They’re called Window Collages. The titles are poetic/scientific documentations: night …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7749″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Make ink blots by applying paint, ink, ketchup (or anything else around) in a random pattern, then immediately folding and pressing the paper in half. Open the paper back up, and tell us what you see. Share photographs of your Rorschachs and what you see in them (and in others’) …
Lendy and I met this evening and painted little studies in preparation for the upcoming workshop Paint like Alice Neel. We had League model/instructor Mark MacKenzie dress up in a suit and tie, and sat him in my new (old) green chair. It’s shabby and low to the ground, so he looked angular and awkward, …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. ANTHROPORMORPHIC suggesting human features for animals or …
Beginner’s Drawings That’ll Knock Your Socks Off (Part 2)
[image_with_animation image_url=”9462″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the second part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, almost all of them are new to figure drawing.
Rather than learning one style, I offer a completely different stylistic approach every session. We’ve done straight line measures, site sizing, envelopes, kites, mass shapes, shadows, gestures, contours, volume, cross-hatching, and more. Today I’m posting a few “Chocolate Bar Drawings,” so named because the side of conte was used, and the brown looked like it was made from a bar of chocolate.
Enjoy.
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For 30 years Stuart Shils painted urban skylines and tuscan landscapes, painting outside or by looking through the window. He simpliefied the landscape into bright, vague, and subtle studies of color. Now he’s at that same window, his view turned inward, making collage, camera and light projections. They’re called Window Collages. The titles are poetic/scientific documentations: night …
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