Home on the Value Range. Drawing Lesson #4

 

Line  value drawing with cross hatching. 1981

Lesson 3  Drawing on the right side of the brain.

1.  Look at drawings...memory drawing of room and  Ed Koch....Shift?   Judy’s question...analytical? More analogy, relational, holistic.Suspension of time, no decoding speech, active without anxiety.When is the crisis time for young artists?   Look at drawings of Koch and have each student “explain”  their room drawings. 
 

Yeah, I know....this is an iris in my garden, not an ironweed....but the poem is so lovely and applies to iris as well...."profoundest violet", indeed.

Ironweed

By Robert Morgan

There is a shade of purple in
this flower near summer’s end that makes
you proud to be alive in such
a world, and thrilled to know the gift
of sight. It seems a color sent
from memory or dream. In fields,
along old trails, at pasture edge,
the ironweed bares its vivid tint,
profoundest violet, a note
from farthest star and deepest time,
the glow of sacred royalty
and timbre of eternity
right here beside a dried-up stream.

1.  Iris......modified contour line. Mark midlines on your paper view finder. Stare at my leaf and negative space until you see the shapes of the negative.  Hold up your viewfinder and do the same for the iris.  Try drawing the negative spaces (Right brain) instead of the iris.  Don’t tilt or move your head and arm.  Get comfortable first!

2. Again, draw your hand holding something on the plastic.Then cover a sheet of your notebook with charcoal and rub it in with a piece of paper towel to get a medium value tone..


3. Do hand exercise., pg. 106-110  Pick up some of the highlights with your eraser.  Darken some shadows with your charcoal.   Hand out Escher drawing....look at the shadows and highlights.

Assignment:  Read chapter 6.  Apply charcoal to your paper. Using the viewfinder (prop your paper viewfinder) over a complex vegetable like a radish with leaves, a tomatilla, or three green onions.  Let some of the veggie parts go off the edge of the view finder.  Draw and shade the veggie(s) like you did with  the hand exercise.

Have a flowery day.

Bearded Iris                                                                       ©Jennifer M. Carrasco 5/12/10                                         

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