In recent posts, we talked about Cezanne’s process. In particular, we talked about the process seen in Cezanne’s drawings. Yesterday, in figure drawing class, we looked at how Cezanne tends to make short marks when he draws. Those short marks accumulate into longer contours and form descriptions, but they don’t trap or the whole object in an outline, they only describe pieces of an object. The forms are sensitively described, but the outlines are broken, allowing the figure and background to connect. This method can be used as a way to open observational work towards abstraction.
The most challenging aspect of this drawing approach is to let go of the “thingness” or the object, and draw every mark – whether it’s a face or a tablecloth – with equal interest. Here are a few of the beautiful figure drawings inspired by this method, made in yesterday’s figure drawing class.
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[image_with_animation image_url=”9488″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the third 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, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing. Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every …
This painting by Chaim Soutine is regarded as one of the greatest portrait paintings of the early 20th century. If you were to say what was one of the greatest contemporary portraits of the 21st century, what painting would you choose, and why? Madeleine Castaing was an internationally renowned French interior designer, and a friend …
Thanks to Jennifer Small for sending this in response to yesterday’s post about Degas’ failed historical paintings. This one was painted some time between 1857 and 1862 (dates differ), which was around the same time as he was working on the other historical paintings. Paintings and dates: The Daughter of Jephtha 1860 The Daughter of Jephtha study 1860 Young …
Student Works: Abstracted figure drawings inspired by Cezanne
In recent posts, we talked about Cezanne’s process. In particular, we talked about the process seen in Cezanne’s drawings. Yesterday, in figure drawing class, we looked at how Cezanne tends to make short marks when he draws. Those short marks accumulate into longer contours and form descriptions, but they don’t trap or the whole object in an outline, they only describe pieces of an object. The forms are sensitively described, but the outlines are broken, allowing the figure and background to connect. This method can be used as a way to open observational work towards abstraction.
The most challenging aspect of this drawing approach is to let go of the “thingness” or the object, and draw every mark – whether it’s a face or a tablecloth – with equal interest. Here are a few of the beautiful figure drawings inspired by this method, made in yesterday’s figure drawing class.
Special thanks to our fabulous model, Hendri!
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