Back to School
Jan. 12th, 2006 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxI just came back to art class yesterday. This opening session was, unlike previous sessions, a lot of fun.
It wasn't anything new - a monochrome still life study of some objects placed before us - but this time, the objects gave me a challenge suitable to my needs.
There was a mask, terra cotta, in profile. It looked like some sort of Mayan style headdress or whatever; but whatever it was, it gave me a real challenge to work from.
I had to make three images from this still life: first, a continuous line drawing; second, a line drawing / mark making approach, using whatever media I had to hand, namely pencils, graphite, charcoal; and thirdly, a tonal study, for which I applied graphite and compressed charcoal sticks.
The third image, the tonal study, was the one which raised the most comments. Apparently, it's one of the best works I have done so far.
If I can find someone who can scan A3 or bigger, I will one day scan in the image and let everyone see.
Anyways, the writing course reopens tomorrow. I only completed the second chapter of the Fourth Rewrite of my novel length fantasy story today, and I hope to be able to show the tutor one or two of the highlights, let him see I've not been spending the holidays twiddling my thumbs.
Wish me luck.
It wasn't anything new - a monochrome still life study of some objects placed before us - but this time, the objects gave me a challenge suitable to my needs.
There was a mask, terra cotta, in profile. It looked like some sort of Mayan style headdress or whatever; but whatever it was, it gave me a real challenge to work from.
I had to make three images from this still life: first, a continuous line drawing; second, a line drawing / mark making approach, using whatever media I had to hand, namely pencils, graphite, charcoal; and thirdly, a tonal study, for which I applied graphite and compressed charcoal sticks.
The third image, the tonal study, was the one which raised the most comments. Apparently, it's one of the best works I have done so far.
If I can find someone who can scan A3 or bigger, I will one day scan in the image and let everyone see.
Anyways, the writing course reopens tomorrow. I only completed the second chapter of the Fourth Rewrite of my novel length fantasy story today, and I hope to be able to show the tutor one or two of the highlights, let him see I've not been spending the holidays twiddling my thumbs.
Wish me luck.
