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Next,
in the list, is drawing as a preliminary for painting. Preliminary
studies have been around for a long time. They offer an easy way
to solve complex problems before the painting starts. Painting offers
enough challenges, color mixing, value/color relationships, keeping
the immediacy of paint handling, making the difficult look easy.
All these begin with a good preliminary drawing.
Most
sketchbooks are used as a visual record. Ideas, places, visual concepts
all begin here. Most important paintings are born here. You can
keep the value relationship, interesting details and personal notes
or planning ideas about a painting there. Paintings are authenticated
this way, "Does it appear in the sketch books or preliminary
drawings?" |
Seeing
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The
last purpose we will consider for drawing is as a preliminary for
sculpture. Preliminary studies for sculpture have been around almost
as long as sculpture.
Sculpture
provides other challenges, accurate three dimensional proportion,
surface texture, making the transfer from 2-D to 3-D. Sculpture
requires a good preliminary drawing or set of drawings.
For
the sculptor sketchbooks are used as a visual record of the model.
It takes the place of keeping the model present during the entire
sculpture process. They are more closely linked to the sculpture
process than even painting preliminaries might be. The sculpture
doesn't proceed without them. |
| Spatial
Drawing |
Drawing can replicate an illusion of depth, provide additional information
for another purpose (painting, sculpture, installation and many
others) or provide an end in itself. |
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Class
assignments
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- 40 minute drawing -- Composition gesture, value / mass
building, then detail - a fully developed drawing. Be conscious
of the sequence form, and make the drawing interesting. Start with
the same setup - the posed model,when we have all brought it up
to a near finished level we introduce a new element and all drawings
must accomodate the change. [Designed to make us flexible enough
to make changes when we need them, when the drawing or composition
warrants change or when the model moves.] |
Homework
Assignment |
Assignment
in addition to weekly sketchbook drawings:1 Drawing - "2
point perspective drawing of a model in a room with a window" |
| Footnotes:
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Bibliography
Master Class in Figure Drawing by Robert Beverly
Hale
- Edward Hopper -- by Edward Hopper, Lloyd Goodrich
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Volume 1) by Leonardo
Da Vinci
Michelangelo Life Drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Old Master Life Drawings: 44 Plates by James Spero
(Editor)
Links - ArtLex Art Dictionary: http://www.artlex.com/
Donato Giancola: http://www.donatoart.com/galframeset.html
2 pt perspective http://www.actionscript-toolbox.com/samplemx3dbox.php
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Links:
for class notes www.jonraderjarvis.com/classes.htm
and email contact address jrj@jonraderjarvis.com
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