Rabbit Watching the Moon ©Jennifer M Carrasco 4/6/05
Seeing the immense design of the world, one image of wonder mirrored by another image of wonder...the pattern of fern and of feather by the frost on the window pane, the six rays of the snowflake mirrored in the rock-crystal's six rayed eternity....seeing the pattern on the scaly legs of birds mirrored in the pattern of knot-grass, I asked myself, were those shapes molded by blindness? are n0t these the "correspondences", to quote a phrase of Swedenborg, "whereby we may speak with angels? " ...............Dame Edith Sitwell
Ok, People of the Drafting Boards....this is the Real #4 Drawing Lesson. Last week was the third lesson but I put # 4, but when I also post this on Facebook, it gets too complicated (and I get too lazy) to change it. Anyhow, what's a little plus or minus one way or the other. Those of you who missed the last class, you can find equivalent exercises in Chapter 7.1. Review of 5 perceptual skills...edges, spaces, relationships, light and shadow (value), the gestalt or whole. Pure contour? Modified contour?
Look at toned drawings.....start medium light (use the toned paper as your medium value) Show drawing on toned paper. Show steps. Draw lightly! We used shells, but a flower would be appropriate for those who missed the class.
Tone another sheet in your sketch book.....medium value.
Negative space and positive space..why important? We are not accustomed, as a culture, to look at the negative space. We are a verbal, objective culture. Negative space is just as important in drawing as the positive or the object you are drawing. . Beginners are often oblivious to the format...they focus so intently on the object that they are oblivious to the shape of the format, which largely controls the composition. Imagine a tree in various formats. How would you place, for instance, a tall thin poplar in a long horizontal rectangle format.
To define a shell with drawing with white pencil around shapes,,the contours are shared edges with the positive (left brain) and the negative(Right brain) Demo.
Where do you draw your entry and exit points? Draw lightly! Remove negative space with eraser, then highlights. Now, find the darkest areas and add to those. Spray with fixative.
Basic Units....... where does the line or lines come in.....Show on a larger foam core. Then using the basic unit to measure the angles and lengths of the sail, the boat, etc.
Show chair and negative spaces...discuss...pretend to pulverize the chair.
With viewfinder,draw the folding chair. First find the negative space by staring at it, then find some entry points for negative space.
Read chapter 7.
The Spaces Between. Mt. Arayat Climb, June 6, l980, Philippines ©Jennifer M. Carrasco 6/6/1980
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fantastic study! You are an incredible teacher of art!
Posted by: Theresa Cheek | May 25, 2010 at 06:23 AM