Monday, November 22, 2010

Paper Bag

Paper bag 1 done with pencils
Paper bag 2 done with conte

Monday, November 15, 2010

Perspective

 One point perspective
 Two point perspective
 Three point perspective
 "Ant's eye" view
"Bird's eye" view

Friday, November 5, 2010

Color: complimentary

I used a complimentary color scheme of blue and orange. The background of this collage was done by ripping strips of construction paper; I wanted to hand rip the coral-like stuff in the foreground too but I ended up saving my sanity by using a pair of scissors.

Still life week 9

Collage using textures

Well I can't say I really like the result but the process was very interesting and gave me ideas for future collage type work. Since it is a little hard to discern what the objects actually are I have posted the original drawing below. If nothing else, it definately has texture!



























Thursday, November 4, 2010

Texture

These are some of my favorite texture experiments done by rubbing various mediums on paper over different surfaces, stamping, brushing, and scanning actual objects with texture.





This and the next were done by setting a layer of marbles in a tray and then laying paper over it and then dragging charcoal across it


Conte rubbing of my art supply box

Conte rubbing of cardboard

India ink and a knitted sock

Conte rubbing of rough wood panelling


Conte rubbing of heater grate
india ink stamping with bread...yes bread
India ink brushed on with circular felt chair leg pad









Monday, October 18, 2010

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.