WHAT TO BRING TO CLASS THIS WEEK!

I would like you all to bring in clear magazine tear outs of faces, hands, that sort of thing, with good contrast and detail. we will be using them in class this week. Also, you do NOT need to bring in your large newswprint pads, just your sketchbooks.

see you at 2:50

The Opening

Thank you to the students from tuesday's drawing fundamentals class for attending the opening reception of "The Black Madonna" at Union theological seminary in NYC last night. It was great fun for me to share some of my work with you all and to take you to what may have been a very new experience.

I look forward to being able to do that again with you all soon. I recommend picking up or subscribing to Time Out New York magazine. there you canfind listings of all things happening in NYC including artist talks, gallery receptions, lecture series and more!

have a great day and see you all in class today!
cheers

My MISTAKE

For my Tuesday class! WE WILL BE GOING TO THE OPENING AFTER ALL! PLEASE MEET ME IN THE CLASSROOM AT OUR 2:50 Timeslot. we will leave as soon as everyone shows up. the opening is from 5-8pm on 121st street and Broadway at Union Theological Seminary (James Chapel)

see you all there.

Round trip train tickets are $17.50

Negative Space

In this week's lessons we will be addressing Negative space, the space BETWEEN things, or easier still, the space that exists around things.
Here are some images to help familiarize you...




Negative space is a key component to interesting overall designing of your picture.
Happy drawing!

Homework

As part of the excercise for this week (draped fabric), the weekend homework is to draw your bed. please use your 18x24" good sketch paper. You are free to use any of these mediums : Charcoal, ink or conte crayon.
Be creative. remember: the assignment is about DRAPED FABRIC!!

What we've covered thus far

Hell you all. this is just to recap what we've been up to so far:

Contour Drawing
Controlled Contour Drawing
Composition
Gesture Drawing
Pictoral Plane
Perspective
Tone Studies
Self portraiture with a room interior (this was a homework assignment that has already been critiqued in class)

The Homeworks thusfar are the following:

Sketch book work
Self Portrait (contour line in INK set within an environment)
Home still life (controlled contour) with three selected shapes that are to be toned. one dark, one solid black and one light tone


Upcoming Lessons:
Draping (drawing draped fabric from observation)
Negative space
Copying from the masters
drawing upside down from a photograph. (begin compiling a collection f magazine clippings you can use as source material for this project

Keep checking up on the blog for more information regarding this class

Suggested supplemental reading
Drawing for Dummies
A Guide to Drawingby Daniel Mendelowits
Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain
Art and Fear

Planes

Since we are learning to draw. we need to understand that objects exist in space. To illustrate on a 2D surface what we see in 3D we need to understand the picture plane.
There are three planes, a foreground midground and background. Keeping that in mind, we need to always consider that things in the background recede and things in the foreground become more prominant. Tone is one way to make things have the illusion of moving forward or receding in space. How things are placed and paying attention to how things overlap one another is another way to help us create the illusion of a third dimension in our drawings. There are also directional cues that we need to pay close attention to that we can use as guides in further understanding and creating believable images.