Last Saturday was our Draw like Diebenkorn class. Since Diebenkorn himself was unable to join us (technical issues with zoom), I stepped in to facilitate with slide shows and observations about how Diebenkorn uses form and line to lead us around the composition. I set up still lives that were Diebenkorn inspired, and we had a fantastic live model who researched Diebenkorn’s style and turned her living room into a Diebenkorn-esque scene. Fantastic! It was a great day of drawing. Below are some of my favorite moments.
Drawings inspired by Diebenkorn
Anne Walker, portrait of a student
Kate Flores, portrait of a student
We started our warm up by drawing other students in the zoom windows, then studied the wrinkles in our own hands. In setting up the still lives, I made sure to have the lines of each object lead to another object, making pathways in and around the composition. We pretended our drawing tools were ants on their way to get to another edge of the paper.
Anne Walker
We had a fantastic live (online) model who rearranged her living room, assembled the perfect outfit, and set up poses to perfectly reproduce the Diebenkorn angles. She was fantastic!
Choice of outfits!
our fabulous model Kristie
Terry Smith
Ellen BrownElizabeth Mitchell
Thank you for a great day of drawing everyone!
Artists: Cynthia Hartwig, Anne Walker, Elizabeth Mitchell, Alex Walker, Ellen Brown, Stephan Enriquez, Ene Lewis, Terry Smith, Margaret Glesman, Jenna Ashley, Kate Flores, Nora Masters
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Drawings Inspired by Diebenkorn; Images from the Workshop
Last Saturday was our Draw like Diebenkorn class. Since Diebenkorn himself was unable to join us (technical issues with zoom), I stepped in to facilitate with slide shows and observations about how Diebenkorn uses form and line to lead us around the composition. I set up still lives that were Diebenkorn inspired, and we had a fantastic live model who researched Diebenkorn’s style and turned her living room into a Diebenkorn-esque scene. Fantastic! It was a great day of drawing. Below are some of my favorite moments.
Drawings inspired by Diebenkorn
We started our warm up by drawing other students in the zoom windows, then studied the wrinkles in our own hands. In setting up the still lives, I made sure to have the lines of each object lead to another object, making pathways in and around the composition. We pretended our drawing tools were ants on their way to get to another edge of the paper.
We had a fantastic live (online) model who rearranged her living room, assembled the perfect outfit, and set up poses to perfectly reproduce the Diebenkorn angles. She was fantastic!
Thank you for a great day of drawing everyone!
Artists: Cynthia Hartwig, Anne Walker, Elizabeth Mitchell, Alex Walker, Ellen Brown, Stephan Enriquez, Ene Lewis, Terry Smith, Margaret Glesman, Jenna Ashley, Kate Flores, Nora Masters
This post highlights work from the Draw like Diebenkorn workshop. If you would like to try something like this only different, the Paint like Diebenkorn workshop is coming up May 9th and 16th! Beginners welcome, providing you have some experience with your chosen media (charcoal on paper, or paint on canvas). You don’t need much for fancy materials, just some scraps of paper or canvas, a bit of white paint and some charcoal will be plenty. We can do a lot with that! Click here to learn more.
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