Posts tagged 'Figure Drawing' - Page 6
| Sometimes things go easily in figure drawing. Sometimes my hand-eye coordination is better, I am more focused, my mind is unstressed, and the drawings seem to just flow. This week the figure drawing session at Studio b. was like that.
Sessions like this, coupled with last Saturday’s super-fun encaustic workshop, make me think ... |
| This week in Figure Drawing at Studio b., Heather Clements instructed us to focus on light patterns and shadow patterns. We worked with strong lighting, toning only the darks, all the same value, and leaving the paper untoned to show the lighted areas. This high contrast lighting is very powerful, with much ... |
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This week we had a new model and open studio figure drawing. Creativity was a-buzzing!
There are many decisions to be made when starting a new drawing, and having a new unfamiliar model adds to the mix. After looking at the model and deciding whether the pose is good for me or whether I need to move to a different vantage ... |
| For several weeks at Studio b.‘s figure drawing sessions, we have been focusing on negative space. This week our focus was the silhouette of the figure, essentially the contour line which separates negative space from positive space. Our instructor Heather Clements says that when the contour is interesting, that’s half ... |
| There is something about the figure as an art subject that fascinates me. Most North-Americans are raised with the view that nudes are naked and nasty, instead of beautiful and natural. Like everyone in our mass-marketed-to-death culture, I have been indoctrinated with the mindset that thin, idealized proportions are beautiful, and fat and wrinkles less beautiful. Since I have achieved ... |
| This week at Studio b., we had a new model. I get better at drawing any particular model after I have drawn him or her a few times. The first session with a new model is difficult for me. The week was no exception — I struggled. And as if drawing a new model wasn’t hard ... |
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I was privileged to be the guest artist at the figure drawing session at Studio b. this week while our regular instructor was on vacation. My focus was on line quality and lost edges.
Sometimes the edge between the two shadows becomes indistinct. The same thing can happen with light areas, or for that ... |
| Fourteen artists were at the figure drawing session at Studio b. this week. Fourteen! The gallery was overflowing with talent and enthusiasm. What great energy! Kathy practically danced while she drew; Theresa was writing something; and behind me I could hear Roy’s charcoal.
Colleen had some good music in the background, and some refreshments on the ... |
| We continued to work with creating the illusion of depth in our figure drawing session at Studio b. again this week. Instructor Heather Clements reviewed the 4 ways we had been practicing: size and perspective or foreshortening, degree of development, Mach bands, and value or color contrast. Our model held a long ... |
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