Learning to Draw is like learning to write
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Marshfield Senior Center Day 4
Self Portrait Blind Conour Another Artist who PRACTICES Blind Contour Hands sign-language Figure From Amateur Simplifying the FIGURE... Basic FORM Simple Forms From Model GESTURE DRAWING Kolwitz 6 Hand/Brain Eye Skills
Marshfield Senior Center -Day 3
LOOK don't THINK Foreshortening and Vantage Points Contour Drawing Small Contour Drawings Review -Building Concepts learning-how-to-see-as-artist-negative. watercolor-values-form-light-to-dark.html Form+in+Perspective session-4-contour-line-blind-contour. Shape Distortion Flower Painting/Drawings 1 & 2 Point Linear Perspective Drawing Solids Part 2 Cube What I am learning: #1) Every participant has a unique idea of what will happen in this mini-course & #2) Every participant can take away something (might be unexpected) from each meeting if they are open. My role varries depending on the individual level of experience and or knowledge that each participant brings to the experience I am: Facilitator of drawing exercises - this means I design and plan the use of time Instructor : of concepts related to connecting the Eye/Brain/Hand Muse: guide to consider other possibilities or expand ideas Quote from participants: "I am beg
Marshfield Senior Center, Day 2
Subject Matter - Inanimate Objects...What do we draw and why? Review and Purpose for Seeing the Negative learning-how-to-see-as-artist-negative.html Design Elements and Principles Types of Forms Creating ILLUSION of Form with Value Cylinder & Sphere form-in-dramatic-light Applying knowledge of reality to creating illusion Shape to Form Grouping Forms form-in-space
Marshfield Senior Center, Day 1
Today was the 1st of 4 lessons on Drawing... Goals for today were: 1) To be introduced to each other and to begin to break down barriers 2) BEGIN to learn some of the "tricks of the trade" or "Methods to the Mystery" Sometimes drawing something that we would like is as simple as applying some of the basic tricks Artists have been using the show off for years! 3) Learn how to use and see positive & negative SPACE & SHAPE 2-observation-drawing-negative.html 4) Work form an Image and learn how to: a) make it any size you want b) learn how to transfer a drawing to any surface for further development in any medium c) learn how you can take an existing drawing and develop it into a creative original work I want my developing Artists to know that ... 1) You ARE an artist.. you just haven't realized it yet due to lack of interest, practice and believing in yourself (maybe you were discouraged somehow in your past) 2) Conc
Watercolor - Values-Form- Light to Dark
Positive & Negative Working from Memory of Light effects on Form Begin with Basic Forms & creating Darks by layering Creating Composition of Space with Form
Sphere Form of the Human Head at various angles
See the "longitude" lines on a beach ball Every Human and Creature on the Earth can be croken down into its BASIC Cylinder & Sphere FORM How do we combine BASIC FORMS into more COMPLEX?? Rough Sketches of Cylinders The stripes on the Shirt and Hat give Clues to the FORM underneath The human eyeball IS a perfect sphere Human heads are not 'perfect' spheres Draw the Sphere as if it were a basket ball The Head looking in various directions
Figure Drawing - Proportion and Basic Form
Abstracted Wooden Figure Simple Form Static Firgure in a Dynamic Pose Breaking the Complex Figure into BASIC forms People/Artists who want to develop their drawing skills regularly draw from a live nude model. Of course...in lieu of nude model students draw from their teacher, and classmates who learn about the various poses that make for interesting drawings and challenge "seeing" correct proportions and movement of the human form . Student/Artists are challenged to imagine the skeleton hips, spine, and shoulders as well as how to show weight and tension when examining a particular pose. Seated Figure Standing Figure Skeletal and Muscular Systems
