Strips of canvas, that’s all I presented to my drawing students. I stretch my own canvas for my paintings and since the roll is 60 inches wide there’s always a scrap. It’s beautiful, substantial stuff. When you crinkle it a bit, it can conjure up a fantastic landscape. Or it can stimulate abstract seeing. Or [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Crumpled Canvas
Posted in Composition, Imagination, Landscape, Still life, tagged abstract, canvas, imagination, Karen, landscape, still life on February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Raúl Ruiz, the Primacy of the Image and a Quote from Roger Scruton
Posted in Imagination, inspiration, Quotes, tagged expression, image, narrative, Peter, Raul Ruiz, Roger Scruton on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The filmmaker Raúl Ruiz says that in telling a story, the story doesn’t come first. Nor the concept. What comes first is an image and then another image and another and out of these images a narrative emerges. He adds that this is not a principle for everyone but this is his working theory. (If [...]
Drawing Along with Students
Posted in Life drawing, Technique and Demo, tagged class, drawing along, students on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In my drawing class I like to sit next to individual students and draw along with them. Sometimes students want to be left alone, but most of the time this drawing-along is welcome. I enjoy this immensely since I love to draw. I hear (from students) that this practice of mine is rare, that most [...]
Sketching for a Fresh View
Posted in abstraction, Collage, Composition, inspiration, Landscape, Technique and Demo, tagged adventure, bearing, Caryl, collage, painting, sketching on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It can get hard. You loved the colors and shapes in your sketch—in this case, a collage—and then it turns out that the painting process throws all sorts of hurdles in your path. Caryl C. took her inspiration for this painting from a snippet of collage, about three inches long. She transferred it to a [...]
A Leap into Abstraction
Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Composition, Imagination, inspiration, Negative space, Still life, tagged harmony, lever, Linné, negative space, sphere, still life, unbalance, Zig-zag on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This drawing by Linné D. comes out of the ol’ drapery-with-sphere in a still life setup. We again have the dynamic of the sphere and the zig-zag discussed in the previous post. Anyone who followed that discussion can spot it here immediately, though here the zig-zag does not trace the hem of the drapery. Here [...]
The Sphere and the Zig-Zag and More.
Posted in abstraction, Composition, Imagination, inspiration, Negative space, Roundness, Still life, tagged china marker, concave, echo, high surface, no erasing, no-fault, sphere, still life, Zig-zag on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In this table full of drapery, pottery, apples, spheres and the mighty amaryllis (see previous two posts) there was a well-lit part with a red sphere and some zig-zag drapery. Gabrielle E. chose this passage, outlined in green, at right. Her drawing shows powerful compositional elements. 1) The sphere at #3 is in the middle [...]
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