Nearly Done!

Work completed during this last week of set pieces. Each artist was asked to draw:

a vanishing pathway, a view from one room into another, a copy of a drawing showing foreshortening, a foreshortened view of a hand and finally to produce a drawing of a subject of their own choice.

Judy's Images

'Well, the brief was to draw something that you would enjoy doing and meant something to you. This was mine. I enjoyed it so much I did another one of one of Keeper's sons.'

 

'I think I enjoyed this one the most. I took me ages but I wanted to see if I could draw a black dog which relies on highlights to show the structure and form. I think I'm quite pleased with my first attempt. In the photo of this 8 week old puppy he was using his father's side as a cushion but I didn't want to distract from the main focus so I tried to suggest a white pillow instead. Egyptian cotton of course!'

 

Catherine's Images

Lyn's Images

Peter's Images

 

Marian's Images

'Looking back over my workbook I cannot believe how far I have come in such a short time.  The course has been great fun, it has certainly worked in that I would no longer say I can't draw, and it has inspired me to continue drawing to see just how much further I can go.  Thank you Sylvia for giving so cheerfully of your knowledge, patience, support and encouragement.'

'The final piece probably needs some explaining.  It is from the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and the coach driver is my eldest son, Christopher..... It was my second attempt and I very nearly gave up, it certainly took me far longer than the prescribed 3 hours.  I used the grid on a print out of a photo to sketch in the outlines and then took the detail off an image on the computer screen.  My first attempt got so messy with corrections that I abandoned it and hunted around for a different subject, but could not find anything that caught my imagination so returned for a second attempt.  I am glad I did.'

  

Phil's Images 

Marianne's Images

 

And Finally.....Perspective

The hardest lesson of all has been left until now, since the students have, by now, all absorbed and in some cases mastered the basics of drawing and are able to take on a final challenge.
After a full day of work looking at one point perspective and sighting for foreshortening, they have been sent off with two weeks of tasks to practise this and their other skills combined.
This is the collection of work from the first week's assignments.

Marian commented this week

I enjoyed copying the 3/4 face by Lucas Cranach, but after the portraiture I found returning to still life rather uninspiring and was not happy with the flat and very controlled results.  This is amazing as at the beginning of the course I would have chosen anything that could be drawn with a ruler (Left Brain) over anything with curved contours and soft edges (Right Brain).   

I found the squared grid impossible to line up in exactly the same place each time I checked, so I abandoned it in favour of the viewer which is much more forgiving in this respect.

A three-quarter portrait copied from a 2D print

Books from two viewpoints

 

 

A corner view at home

  Progress towards vanishing point of three similar objects