In Friday’s post I bragged about the drawings created in my recent Painterly Figures with Tone class. The earlier post shared how beautiful a drawing can be when the figure is sketched with no more or less attention than the wall behind it, with no outlines or delineations of form, only scribbles of tone. Today’s drawings go even further into abstraction.
These drawings were created by making short, distributed marks as they float in space, sometimes connected by a trail that an ant might take across the surface. There are no outlines, no delineated forms. This is incredibly engaging and concentrated work, and requires leaps of faith because there is no solidity at all to hang on to while they draw, and unlike our typical 20 minute studies, these take hours. The artist’s challenge is to keep making marks where they see them, without any of the typical efficient methods of sketching things out before time is invested, or connecting and affirming the correct positions before they have naturally emerged. Over time, the scene sort of coalesces out of mess. I’m including some of the first stages so you can see how the drawings emerge. I think they’re deep and exciting works. See what you think.
Again, please kindly overlook any flaws in the photography. The images were taken on the fly, past sunset.
Lyall
Karen
Karen
Morgan
Kathy
I love these Sunday figure drawing classes. No class is ever the same. Every class introduces a different approach to drawing. Next series is based on composition. “Composition” tends to sound like a great way to take the spontaneity out of a drawing, but I assure you, this is one of the most spontaneous and interesting methods of drawing I’ve ever experienced! Want to give it a try? I’m offering classes for beginner and intermediate artists.
My silence these past few days has not been intentional. I lost my mojo. Art classes are on break, human contact is absent, the news that I thought was bad, got worse. I was at a loss for what to send you. Black artists. Black artists. More black artists. The last time there was racial …
When I went to college, my interests were broad. After going to community colleges for 6 years, I chose to transfer to a university instead of a specialized art school because I wanted to continue taking classes in a wide variety of subjects: philosophy, biology, music, art, linguistics, writing, everything I could get my head …
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In recent V. Notes, I have shared some of Carlos San Millan’s favorite painters. So far I’ve posted Kim Frohsin, Mitchell Johnson, Yann Kebbi, Марина Цветаева (Marina Tsvetyeva), and Sangram Majumdar. Today I’m posting Bato Dugarzhapov. Bato is a Russian painter born in 1966. I had his work saved for a V. Note someday. Looks …
Painterly Figures with Tone: Part 2
In Friday’s post I bragged about the drawings created in my recent Painterly Figures with Tone class. The earlier post shared how beautiful a drawing can be when the figure is sketched with no more or less attention than the wall behind it, with no outlines or delineations of form, only scribbles of tone. Today’s drawings go even further into abstraction.
These drawings were created by making short, distributed marks as they float in space, sometimes connected by a trail that an ant might take across the surface. There are no outlines, no delineated forms. This is incredibly engaging and concentrated work, and requires leaps of faith because there is no solidity at all to hang on to while they draw, and unlike our typical 20 minute studies, these take hours. The artist’s challenge is to keep making marks where they see them, without any of the typical efficient methods of sketching things out before time is invested, or connecting and affirming the correct positions before they have naturally emerged. Over time, the scene sort of coalesces out of mess. I’m including some of the first stages so you can see how the drawings emerge. I think they’re deep and exciting works. See what you think.
Again, please kindly overlook any flaws in the photography. The images were taken on the fly, past sunset.
I love these Sunday figure drawing classes. No class is ever the same. Every class introduces a different approach to drawing. Next series is based on composition. “Composition” tends to sound like a great way to take the spontaneity out of a drawing, but I assure you, this is one of the most spontaneous and interesting methods of drawing I’ve ever experienced! Want to give it a try? I’m offering classes for beginner and intermediate artists.
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