Using the viewfinder and one eye to "flatten" your space.
Lesson 2 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
*Note: Several materials in your drawing lessons are only available if you attend the class. If you missed the class, I suggest you look in your reading for images for upside down drawing and a "face and vase" example to draw.
While setting up, draw a brussel sprout ( or brocolli or unpealed carrot) in a modified contour (look at your paper when you change directions....note, the interior contour lines are just as important.
Remember....you are learning a skill....learning to be an artist is up to you.
1. Hand out Rilke poem and index cards for viewfinders. Look at drawings and share. Discuss. Discuss reading...why memory portrait? Signature...bold, broken, pure, lost and found. All are valuable.
2. Go to page 14 and I’ll demonstrate making a view finder....it makes a format the same as your paper. (not the same size, just the same shape. Helps you define the edges of what you see. Make it so you have about 1 and 1/2 inch frame.
3. Right and left handedness...who? L handers....generally less lateralized (i.e, can process language in both hemispheres....more prone to interference...stuttering, dislexia. Can excel in math, music and chess...and art...Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Look at chart.(page 44)....artists are famous for loosing sense of time, having trouble with schedules and counting and dates (numbers)....Right brain dominant. Many things traditionally
attributed to women are Right brain attributes.
4. Faces and vases. Draw your own profile. name the parts....now draw the same facing the profile you drew. Will it help to name the parts? (No) Instead, ask yourself...where does that curve start? How deep is that curve?
What is the angle relative to the edge of the paper? How long is the line relative to the one I just drew. Draw one side of the Lucy/Desi profile with your dominant hand, naming the parts....then draw the other, not naming.
You are leaving behind the verbal and going into the spacial mode, which will help you draw.
Break.
6. Pure contour....a true record of perceptions, not just glib stereotypes. In highschool , I didn’t have an art teacher...but I could draw pretty well.....but it was glib...not “standing on fishes” Whiz kid.....like a savant ....no depth.
7. Review of perceptual skills of drawing...pg 96
8. Modified contour drawing..pg. 96 , 97, 98. Show how Durer drew nudes...pass out papers.
9 Draw hand on plexi. Look on page 100 at the top...see the man’s imaginary picture plane as he looks at the mountains..
10. Using your index card viewfinder, make a mark halfway across and halfway down on all sides. Pretend there is plexi in the empty center. Look at the flower in the vase on your table.
11. Draw the vase, flower and shadow with contour lines and your viewfinder. Whatever position you choose, keep it the same for your drawing!
Assignment: Draw Ed Koch drawing ....be aware of your “shift”. Read chapter 4 and 5. Do a memory sketch of your room as a kid.....what kind of bed did you have? Did you share your room? What kind of light fixtures? Did you have posters or art on the walls? How many windows in your room? What could you see out your window. What was on your floor....rug? piles of clothes or toys? Don’t be afraid of being childish....just be detailed.
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