Author: saravipond

Unit 3 postings are organized as follows:

• page 1: Artist presentation, Artist Research, and Technique Assignment
• page 2: Independent Drawing: Research, Process, Final Drawing, Reflection

ARTIST PRESENTATION: Immediately below is my powerpoint presentation in PDF form to show the slides and the notes.

Artist Technique drawing: I selected a few Kentridge drawings that I might crop a small piece from and embed in my own drawing. Below, see a gallery of 4 pages of small trial croppings I made, aiming to reproduce the marks and colour/shading of his work.

Next step: Now I have some idea about the mark making and what I could possibly emulate or at least riff on. Next step is thinking about which crop has most promise to develop into a composition that interests me… See below some visual brainstorming…

See below, a few versions of 8 1/2 by 11 extensions of the cropped fragments. The first one, from History of the Main Complaint, probably the most successful although some trouble blending the top edge of the crop with the sky because charcoal dust accumulated along the cut edge of the paper. The second two are crops from Beethoven, one turned into a landscape and the other a crowd of musicians. Used the wrong type of paper (a yellowish cast) for the musicians so it was particularly hard to get the grey tones to match the original. The landscape was just on copier paper so it was a closer match to the colour of the cut-out-bit from Beethoven.

The organization for the Unit 2 sections is as follows:

• Page 1: Four Model Sessions from classes: Sept 16, 23, Oct 21, 28
• Page 2: Anatomy Sketchbook Assignments
• Page 3: Model Studies and one Close-up Drawing in powdered graphite

Class Two Sept 16: Figure drawing, starting with sticks and black ink, short poses, shifting to brush with ink, then chalk pastels for longer poses.

Class Three Sept 23: several 2-minute gesture drawings + two 30-minute poses

Class Five Oct 21: A series of one-minute and two-minute gesture drawings with ink on newsprint. Two 25-30 minute drawings on prepared paper with oil pastels. One 10-minute drawing on paper prepared with graphite, using eraser only.

Class Six October 28: Two models today. Below are three 1-2 minute gesture drawings with ink and brush, and three 30-minute pieces in various media.

Unit One materials are organized into two sections: Section 1 includes all the blind contour drawings from class one, plus the drawing that I selected from that class to enhance for presentation at the second class. Section 2 is the Critique Drawing, including Research and Reflection and Work-in-Progress images.

SECTION ONE

Class One: Blind Contour drawings, two hands at same time, faces. The first 4 below are the same classmate, wildly inaccurately rendered but interesting to see the evolution in mark-making over the four attempts. The next 2 are self-portraits – will pick one to enhance/complete for next week’s class.

Week One Homework: complete a background for one of the blind contour self-portraits. I chose the one on the left (above) and went with the idea of aging or lifespan — below see sketchbook ideation, two images of the work in progress, and the final version to take to class Sept 16.

Feedback from class — bring the grey or the blue background in and around the flowers to better define them. Reduce / remove the green on the cheek and the nose, possibly the hair (moving beyond the original assignment, as these are the original marks).