Thursday Art group - Session 22


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General drawing and perspective

This week, class followed their own drawing interests.


Kathy - Glass Kathy did really well this drawing and started to capture the weight and appearance of glass containing liquid. When drawing circles as elipses, it's important to produce smooth continuous lines. (Mouseover image to view alternative smoothed line).

Kathy - Glass
Rebecca - Dog

Top 		Rebecca captured the character of her little dog and then started to work back into the drawing to pick out the areas of shadow and form - struggling a little to achieve the 3-dimensional areas. (I'd like to see a version of this produced in charcoal, as I think it would encourage confidence through working faster and quickly produce more substance to the drawing).

Rebecca - Dog
Mags - Glass Mags started to get the proportions of her glass, relative to her viewing angle, but then felt that she might spoil the drawing, having got so far with it. This is the point at which confidence to risk mistakes is important to take the drawing to new levels.

Mags - Glass


Stan experimented with two-point perspective. What began as an idea to draw a campervan (based on this video clip), turned into this train. We discussed the angle of perspective and if the train was being viewed just right of head-on, in real life, the side of the train would only just be visible. The amount of the side shown in the drawing would necessitate the front being slightly angled up on the left side to correct the perspective.

Stan - Train

(Mouseover image to view alternative perspective lines)



Vee spent quite a bit of time checking and rechecking her measurements - eventually producing a reasonable representation of the jar (See image on right). Crisper edge lines would help to emphasise the quality of the glass and stronger pencil work in some of the foreground areas should produce the required separation of front and rear surfaces.

Vee - Glass jar




Observations

Drawing circular forms in perspective challenged a few people. Circles in perspective become ellipses.

Techniques demonstrated and/or mentioned

To aid the perspective of circles, use rectangular or square shapes with straight lines to work out perspective before drawing circular shapes.

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Lorraine experimented with skies and mentioned some difficulty with producing the desired green colours for foliage. As she was using watercolour paints, applying glazes might help with this, building greens through layering, rather than mixing.

Lorraine - Skies


Vee - Glass jar










Tracy practised perspective drawing of circles and lines, using the candle holder from a previous session, but did not complete her drawing.

Nan was away this week.