SUMMER Term week 4
Date: 7th & 8th May
Tutor: Rob
Free Painting
what to bring
Bring along your usual painting materials. It will be useful to have a sketchpad or some rough paper on which you can draw/make notes.
THIS Week
Time to spend on your own project.
‘Table’ as an average 5 year old would draw it :)
weekly sketching challenge
Practise the triangulation techniques (clock method. pencil method, which ever you found easiest) at home by drawing a table. Any table, dining, coffee or other, that you can sit far enough away from to see where it meets the floor. If you want to extend the exercise you could add shadows from the legs, or items on the top. Assess you drawing by deciding whether the table would stand up!
For those of you who are struggling to accept that you have progressed, even after we try to point out that you have, compare your drawing with the drawing shown here. This is how an average 5 year old draws a table; a top and four legs ( assuming they can count to four). They draw what they know, not what they can see. Now, have you made progress?
Sketch of the week
Reason for making the drawing.
Having set you all the challenge of drawing a face at the end of the last Tutor Led class, I thought I’d let you see these quick sketches I made a few months ago. My purpose was to ‘get my eye in’ before starting the more considered drawing which would be in preparation for a portrait painting. At this point I was far more interested in actively looking at the face and making rough notes about the features than I was in achieving a likeness. That shows, I bet you hardly recognise him! In making these drawings far more was committed to my memory of the face than is evident form the sketches.
Materials
4B pencil on sketchbook paper that had a discernible ‘tooth’ to it.
Mark-Making
The marks were made quickly and expressively. If you look at each of the sketches you may begin to see what I was interested in about each feature when I made the marks (e.g. lines down the centre of the nose). Note the range of pencil marks. It is mainly line work; the tone has been varied by putting more pressure on the pencil, and the pencil lifted during the stroke to adjust the width of the line. Many lines are directional; marks for eyebrows go across the page, marks for the hair… Note that ‘workings’ have been left in, and the sketches overlap.
Time for each face
10 -15 minutes
Quote of the week
“I think of my drawing style like handwriting; it is a mix of whatever handwriting you are born with, plus bit’s and pieces you pilfer from other people around you.”
Roz Chast (via BrianyQuotes)
ArTIST of the week
Adrian Hill
‘Sketching and Painting Outdoors.’
A great little book about sketching and drawing, full if ideas. It is ‘old and rare’, but still possible to find it second hand online.
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