here is some work with white charcoal on black paper you may find interesting....
I know, lotsa cats right.....but why not!!
now, here are some charcoal on white intermixture that are interesting...
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Drawing the figure:Gesture
A good way to view the figure is to box it in after a gesture is made. This can help with proportion.
Remember "gesture" is significant to movement
it is good to be "loose" with your drawing the figure.
Interesting drawings:
Homework: review
Last weekend - skeleton (as on sheet hand out) front, side and back
Good work the last couple of days! Tuesday we will do museum drawings, Thursday will be a critique day for museum as well as the drawings done on Thursday. Anyone missing crit will be officially docked. Crits are helpful for honing skills so I look forward to all to put out some awesome energy and work for it.
awesome possum!
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Object Perspective/Gestalt/
Wow, lots of stuff to think about right.
Ok lets review this:
Elements and Principles: These are always in art - and can really help bring things around to make a piece of work successful. It is such a good way to talk about your art - when you use these elements and principles!
Elements: Line, color, texture, shape, form, value, size
Principles: Balance, harmony, contrast, repetition, dominance and unity.
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We tested out visual memory in class - it was kinda difficult - Robert Henri used this method in his teaching...hmm. He had his students observe the model or object in one room and then they went into another room to draw or paint it. His idea was to develop a visual memory as well as learn to develop your vision. What do you think?
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Gestalt
I talked about the concept of Gestalt. Gestalt - is a theory of understanding the whole of something by observing the parts - and in doing this a we see its shape or form of the parts that make the whole. From this - we glean meaningful perceptions from this.
This was very popular (and sometimes still is) in art and therapy! Artist Jackson Pollock did Gestalt therapy when he did his popular "splatter painting".
In my lecture of Gestalt I spoke about how Gestalt is used in perception by organizing components into a meaningful whole. In doing this sometimes the parts are very different then the whole of the object. In organizing, there are 4 different laws:
1. law of closure: when objects are grouped together they are seen as a whole.
Why this is important: It is important to give spacing in your work.
2. law of proximity: Objects near to each other tend to be grouped together.
Why is this important: It is good to give space between objects and to understand the eyes will group objects together.
3. Law of Continuity: Lines are seen as following the smoothest path
Why: if you have objects you are drawing there will be a line that it it automatically forms.
4. Law of similarity: When objects look similar to each other people often perceive them as a group.
Ok lets review this:
Elements and Principles: These are always in art - and can really help bring things around to make a piece of work successful. It is such a good way to talk about your art - when you use these elements and principles!
Elements: Line, color, texture, shape, form, value, size
Principles: Balance, harmony, contrast, repetition, dominance and unity.
__________________________________
We tested out visual memory in class - it was kinda difficult - Robert Henri used this method in his teaching...hmm. He had his students observe the model or object in one room and then they went into another room to draw or paint it. His idea was to develop a visual memory as well as learn to develop your vision. What do you think?
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Gestalt
I talked about the concept of Gestalt. Gestalt - is a theory of understanding the whole of something by observing the parts - and in doing this a we see its shape or form of the parts that make the whole. From this - we glean meaningful perceptions from this.This was very popular (and sometimes still is) in art and therapy! Artist Jackson Pollock did Gestalt therapy when he did his popular "splatter painting".
In my lecture of Gestalt I spoke about how Gestalt is used in perception by organizing components into a meaningful whole. In doing this sometimes the parts are very different then the whole of the object. In organizing, there are 4 different laws:
1. law of closure: when objects are grouped together they are seen as a whole.
Why this is important: It is important to give spacing in your work.
2. law of proximity: Objects near to each other tend to be grouped together.
Why is this important: It is good to give space between objects and to understand the eyes will group objects together.
3. Law of Continuity: Lines are seen as following the smoothest path
Why: if you have objects you are drawing there will be a line that it it automatically forms.
4. Law of similarity: When objects look similar to each other people often perceive them as a group.
Homework: Perspective
Homework this weekend is to do perspective drawings: 1 Point and a 2 Point.
Do either an object - or a location in your home/environment.
Yeah!
Do either an object - or a location in your home/environment.
Yeah!
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Drawing Lecture: Perspective
Good work on Perspective. A little tricky I know.
Highlights:
1-Point Perspective has one vanishing point on linear perspective - on the the horizontal line.
The cool thing with perspective is to use it in your drawings of even objects as so:
this is drawn with the objective of a 2-pt perspective!
3 Point Perspective Birds eye view and Worms (or Ant's eye view)
Highlights:
1-Point Perspective has one vanishing point on linear perspective - on the the horizontal line.
2 Point Perspective: has 2 vanishing points
The cool thing with perspective is to use it in your drawings of even objects as so:
this is drawn with the objective of a 2-pt perspective!3 Point Perspective Birds eye view and Worms (or Ant's eye view)
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