Category: Drawing
How to Check Your Drawing
When you are aiming for realism or an accurate rendering of your subject, there are many ways to check the proportions in your drawing. Here’s a list of the ones I know (and I am sure that I’ve left out a few): Stand back and compare the subject to your drawing. The greater distance will…
Drawing Class Lesson 8
I’ve been working on this drawing for three weeks now. Every one of us is in the same boat, sight-sizing a drawing from a plaster cast. Finally, this week, I felt comfortable enough with my measurements to put in some lines and move forward. My measuring skills continue to improve. What I haven’t done yet…
Figure Drawing Workshop with Rod Cameron
Rod Cameron Workshop, March 2, 2019 One of Rod’s sketches, illustrating Bridgeman’s use of stacked boxes, and a gesture/mass drawing. His favorite resource is Bridgeman, and you can tell from the blocks above. (For additional information please check out “The Best of Bridgeman” by Dover publications.) Rod uses the blocks to understand the shape,…
Week 7 Still Life with White Object or Sculpture
Week 7 class was frustrating for many of us. This was the first week we started working with the casts that Rose has available for us to use, and we will be doing this for the next three weeks as well. Here’s my “cast” as she calls them: I keep reminding myself that Rose’s motto…
Week 6 Still Life with Toned Paper and Proportional Dividers
I finally got around to working on my homework for class yesterday, and I hate that I lost time this week. I gave it about 6 hours, since that is what I had available, and it needs at least another 4-6 to make me happy. Between running a business and finishing up a current painting…
Due Diligence Lessons 5 – 6
We’re on to Lesson 6 I think, and my lack of knowledge bit me in the, uh, backside today. Rose wanted us to do a graduated scale on toned paper using chalk and charcoal to create the entire range. My first attempt was an epic failure because I tried to do the whole thing with soft…
Class 4 at the Kipaipai Atelier
Wow, time flies when you’re having fun. Week 4 homework was a continuation of Week 3’s Bargue drawing, working on the shading setting up a simple still life and practice sight-sizing on 3-d objects setting up a simple still life at home and drawing there as well. I’m astonished at how well my first “bust”…
Class 3
Yikes this week was hard. I should have taken pictures during the week and there wasn’t and still isn’t much to look at since it is just a line drawing at this point. The original plumb line and horizontal were easy. We used a level to find those. The angle of the face though,…
Class 2 Part 2
Here is where I ended up, I ran out of time. I may come back to finish it later. I’m still working on softer and lighter lines. Here’s a quote from the textbook, Lessons in Classical Drawing, by Juliette Aristides that says it all: “One of the most immediate things beginners can…
Kipaipai -Class 2 Part 1
Week 2 of Kipaipai Atelier Drawing Class — Part 1: I’m already much better at discerning differences. I still need to work on my grey scale. I could easily spend all my time drawing, I’m falling in love with it all over again. Rose started us with blocking in tonal shapes, not letting us use…
