Before and After, Ben Shimizu
Here's a short entry of some of the drawings coming out from the ten sessions of drawing lessons. Needless to say, I really enjoyed this class and appreciated the hard work I expected and got from the students. Results from practice and intense focus....we went at a gallop to cover the important points in ten classes are self evident. No one in this class is a professional artist, and most have not taken a drawing class before. They have opened up a new world for themselves.
Before and After, Eric Gilman
As I stressed again and again, this type of class is just the beginning, and the five skills of awareness of contour (edges), relationships, shapes, light and shadows, and the gestalt (coming together) of those elements constitue a good basis to start exploring the world with drawing.
A good follow up to this class would be to work with the more expressive areas of drawing...i.e., a gesture class with Barbara Fugate ,http://www.fromlife.blogs.com comes to mind. I took her class at her studio and thought it was wonderful. And of course, there is the constant practice of drawing in one's journal...everyday, if possible...that yield the ultimate results of a personal style and personal cache of images.
Katie and Daisy by Eric Gilman
While Anya Paperno did many drawings of people, she also practiced with drawing animals and plants, as did Judy Lane.
Anya's Radish
Anya's Grommet dog
Judy Lane's Jack Russell terrier
Josh focusing
And again, here again are the Divine DraftsMen/Women....setting off, I hope, to explore and enjoy their world with sketchbook and pencil.... and I hope more aware, more attuned and more engaged with this miraculous universe by drawing it.
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