Line

 This week I focused on drawing the lines of a silver pitcher. I started off with some timed gesture drawings with pencil to warm.

This is a contour line drawings using marker; the one that follows is the same but with carcoal.

Lyrical line drawing using black marker.

Gesture/implied line drawing using india ink.

Implied line drawing using charcoal.

This is the drawing I had the most fun with this week. I used a 2B pencil, cross-contouring, and a white eraser to help with the highlights.

Still life contour

Final still life contour.

Value

For this assignment I drew from geometric shaped still life objects. With each drawing I became more and more comfortable with using the charcoal to add value and better able to complete each drawing without the use of lines.

By the time I did the final drawing I felt really at ease with the charcoal and did not miss my graphite pencil set a bit! After photographing my final composition and looking at it for a long time I decide to adjust the cone and sphere slightly so that the shadow of the cone would show up fully on the cube and rectangle.

Positive, Negative, Plane, and Volume

Some warm up gesture drawings...

Charcoal contour drawing focusing on positive space

Negative space

Contour drawing of still life objects using graphite

Graphite still life objects with values

Conte crayon still life with values

Ambiguous, Flat, and Illusionistic Space

These first four are examples of ambiguous space.
The first is by Mark Slade.
The second is "Blue Black" by Susan Prior. Third is "The Image Disappears" by Salvador Dali. This one  took me a minute to see why this was ambiguous...but that is the point!
The last of the ambiguous space examples is Dali's "Galatea of the Spheres."

 The next four are examples of the use of flat space.
First is Picasso's"Don Quixote."
Second is an Egyptian tomb wall painting. In looking at Egyptian paintings, it seems that they were more interested in the symbolic rather than true to life representations. Apparently many tombs had painting that depicted agriculture because it symbolized the changing seasons, a process they felt was eternal.
Third is another by Picasso titled, "Seated Woman with Wrist Watch."
The last is by Rob Steel title unknown.

The next four pieces are examples of illusionistic space.
The first is called "Blue Camel" by David Cobb
Next is another Picasso titled "The Old Guitarist."
The third is Narcissus by Caravaggio.
The artist and title of the last example are not known.

Still-life Objects

These are my painted objects for upcoming still life assignments. I had the hardest time finding a cone and finally settled on the suggested party hat. All others but the sphere are various types of cardboard containers.

Gesture and Contour

For my gesture drawing I used my dog, guitar, and camera as subjects. I turned the music up and had a lot of fun with these.

I gave blind contour drawing a shot too (above), following the lines of my camera and coffee mug. I found the exercise a bit awkward but very interesting. I was really surprised that the drawings resembled anything at all when I was done.

 

Line contour, continuous and organizational

Unified Field Drawings

The first of these was done using different Conte crayons. I have never worked with these before and I really enjoyed how easily they glide over the surface of the paper. I experimented with pressure and found that light pressure produced neat, thin, and more controllable hatch lines while more pressure resulted in less control but dramatic dark lines. I used the greatest pressure on the rust which added a  nice bit of color.

The second drawing was not intended to resemble anything however it evolved into a fairly obvious form by th e end. I was standing infront of a vase of hydrangeas and started the drawing just using a quick motion inspired by the shape of the individual leaf petals. As I worked on this it seemed to make sense to include representations of what else I was seeing, a porch railing and a deck floor. While not really a unified field drawing, I am still including it here since the evolution of this was an interesting experience.

The third drawing was done with ink and then finished with water color to seperate the main components of the picture. I have only worked with ink one other time but enjoyed it very much. After I was done with the lines I splattered my brush over different areas and was pleased with the overall effect it had and how it tied everything together.

This last drawing was done with ink as well and was fun to create but I do not like the end result. I actually drew it with the page horizontal but thought it was more interesting when I turned it vertical.