Here is the 45 minute drawing...we took several breaks, put our drawings on the easel to really see what we were doing and where we were going with our drawings and had input from our teacher Deb as well as fellow students. Great critiques that made suggestions for improvements and also accented what WAS working in the drawing - very encouraging. Deb has us focus on what is near to us and what is far away and for our drawings to express that through the farther away items being lighter, more "fuzzy" in focus and the closer items are more detailed, darker, sharper. This vase, 2 limes, and 2 garlic cloves on a piece of folded cloth were a challenge. We had not done drapery before and it isn't easy to get it to look realistic or "grounded". One additional tip was to use a small grid to get a vase, bottle, really anything to look symetrical - just a quick sketched grid and lay out the vase on it and adjust so the proportions are correct.
We had great discussion too of our goals as artists - what we would like to accomplish or where we are going with our art - simply personal pleasure, art to gift others with, selling art, showing in competitions, reaching far to display in a museum.
In July, we will add color to our drawing skills, working with pastels.
We had great discussion too of our goals as artists - what we would like to accomplish or where we are going with our art - simply personal pleasure, art to gift others with, selling art, showing in competitions, reaching far to display in a museum.
In July, we will add color to our drawing skills, working with pastels.
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