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September Contents
September Contents
September 3 - Cabbages and Stepping Stones
September 3 - Cabbages and Stepping Stones
September 17 - Shadows, Pumpkins & Contour Drawing (Video - Contour Drawing) Contour Drawing with Petri
September 17 - Shadows, Pumpkins & Contour Drawing (Video - Contour Drawing) Contour Drawing with Petri
Art Quote of the Week
Art Quote of the Week
"Creativity Takes Courage" - Matisse
"Creativity Takes Courage" - Matisse
"Use the biggest brush you can for as long as you can!"
"Use the biggest brush you can for as long as you can!"
“It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.” - Hans Hofmann
“It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.” - Hans Hofmann
"Once we start to draw, all of a sudden we begin to see again." Frederick Franks, Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing
"Once we start to draw, all of a sudden we begin to see again." Frederick Franks, Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo da Vinci
"Every composition needs a vertical, a horizontal and 2 diagonals" - Tatiana Anisimova
"Every composition needs a vertical, a horizontal and 2 diagonals" - Tatiana Anisimova
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." Cezanne
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." Cezanne
“Value does the work and color takes the credit.” - Marie Wilkes
"A value study will save more time than it takes."
In painting, as in life, you can get away with a great deal as long as you have your values right. (Harley Brown)
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” - Picasso
Think pattern first, then drawing, then color. The character of your painting is resolved in the pattern scheme. (Edgar A. Whitney)
Plan like a turtle; paint like a rabbit. (Edgar A. Whitney)
We find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
If, when facing the paper, you say to yourself, 'I'm an artist,' you haven't a clue as to what to do! If, however, you say, 'I am an entertainer, a shape maker and an expressive symbol collector,' you know the task ahead and how to proceed. (Edgar A. Whitney)
September 17 - Shadows, Pumpkins & Contour Drawing
September 17 - Shadows, Pumpkins & Contour Drawing
We'll have fun with highlights, form, connecting shadows, inventing shades of white, finding the large patterns. Try to do a small thumbnail value sketch (small= 3x4 inches max) to get the big patterns of lights and darks, then look at the individual pumpkins for lit/shade/shadow areas, reflected color...and if possible do your drawing on watercolor paper ahead of time.
We'll have fun with highlights, form, connecting shadows, inventing shades of white, finding the large patterns. Try to do a small thumbnail value sketch (small= 3x4 inches max) to get the big patterns of lights and darks, then look at the individual pumpkins for lit/shade/shadow areas, reflected color...and if possible do your drawing on watercolor paper ahead of time.
Reference from Daisy Eiman on how light and shadows define form...
Giny's Pumpkins with Reflections
Giny's Pumpkins with Reflections
Here's a short Youtube on contour drawing... slightly different, but helpful. Basically, never lift your pencil, and Charles Reid's 2nd piece of advice, hold pencil like you hold your brush...draw with your arm. And remember:when transferring your value sketch to your watercolor paper, use a harder lead (HB), get the big shapes in very lightly, then go back with detail...
Here's a short Youtube on contour drawing... slightly different, but helpful. Basically, never lift your pencil, and Charles Reid's 2nd piece of advice, hold pencil like you hold your brush...draw with your arm. And remember:when transferring your value sketch to your watercolor paper, use a harder lead (HB), get the big shapes in very lightly, then go back with detail...
Contour Drawing with Chris Petri
Classwork Corner - September 17
Classwork Corner - September 17
Linda Zug
Linda Zug
Berrell
Berrell
Darcie
Darcie
Berrell
Berrell
September 3 - Cabbage & Stepping Stones
September 3 - Cabbage & Stepping Stones
This week you get to choose: rocks and water... or cabbage cabbage?? Whichever you choose, simplify the image!
This week you get to choose: rocks and water... or cabbage cabbage?? Whichever you choose, simplify the image!
For stepping stones: Drop that hiker out; draw only half the rocks. And what about the color of the water! Check out this picture of a Daisy Eiman painting of the stream...but yours might be a nice blue....you get to create your reality.
For stepping stones: Drop that hiker out; draw only half the rocks. And what about the color of the water! Check out this picture of a Daisy Eiman painting of the stream...but yours might be a nice blue....you get to create your reality.
Cabbage: Draw fewer leaves...whatever you draw, fill your paper! Study the color shifts and shadows...and check out the picture of a couple cabbage paintings from last summer's final workshop in the arts center.
Cabbage: Draw fewer leaves...whatever you draw, fill your paper! Study the color shifts and shadows...and check out the picture of a couple cabbage paintings from last summer's final workshop in the arts center.
You might put what we learned about values to work in your sketching: draw yourself a little preliminary sketch about 4the x4 inches, make note of the deep shadows and exaggerate them. In either case, try to have a drawing on your watercolor paper before we start...or wing it.
You might put what we learned about values to work in your sketching: draw yourself a little preliminary sketch about 4the x4 inches, make note of the deep shadows and exaggerate them. In either case, try to have a drawing on your watercolor paper before we start...or wing it.
Daisy Eimen
Daisy Eimen
Stepping stones: You will also see I then gridded the thumbnail into thirds each way, and did the same on my watercolor paper before transferring the drawing. Note that the "person" is just box shapes, with a little counter balance so she doesn't fall into the stream...
The first is my "thumbnail sketches"...tiny - pencil included to show scale. In addition to being a value sketch, it lets you work out any horrible drawing mistakes (not all, just the horrible ones). Changes I made were making sure each shadow in the front leaf was a different distance and angle from the others...
Cabbage: You will also see that I shaded in the shadows, both internal and external: I know those will be covered in darker paint and the pencil lines can stay under the paint.
Classwork Corner - September 3
Classwork Corner - September 3
Berrell
Berrell
Pre-Covid Cabbages
Pre-Covid Cabbages
Month Content List
Month Content List
August 20 - Water Lily
August 20 - Water Lily
August 27 - Fun With Fungi
August 27 - Fun With Fungi
September 3 - Cabbages and Stepping Stones
September 3 - Cabbages and Stepping Stones
September 17 - Shadows, Pumpkins & Contour Drawing (Video - Contour Drawing)
September 17 - Shadows, Pumpkins & Contour Drawing (Video - Contour Drawing)
October 1 - Toby in Summer
October 1 - Toby in Summer
October 8 - Toby In Autumn
October 8 - Toby In Autumn
October 15 - Dancing Pears
October 15 - Dancing Pears
October 22 - Happy Hot Peppers (Video - Hans Hoffman, Push Pull Color)
October 22 - Happy Hot Peppers (Video - Hans Hoffman, Push Pull Color)
October 29 - Freewheeling -playing with colors warm cool color - 4 objects
October 29 - Freewheeling -playing with colors warm cool color - 4 objects
November 5 - Mixing Colors - Complementary Grays
November 5 - Mixing Colors - Complementary Grays
November 12 - Hot and Cold Colors
November 12 - Hot and Cold Colors
November 19 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, 1 Color
November 19 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, 1 Color
December 3 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, Colors
December 3 - Moonlight Madness, Wet-On-Wet, Colors
December 10 - Glazing - Wet-On-Dry (3 Videos, Steve Mitchell, Mind of Watercolor, Glazing, Advanced Glazing & Pigment to Water Primer)
December 10 - Glazing - Wet-On-Dry (3 Videos, Steve Mitchell, Mind of Watercolor, Glazing, Advanced Glazing & Pigment to Water Primer)
December 17 - Holiday Cards
December 17 - Holiday Cards
December 31 - Paint Together
December 31 - Paint Together
January 7 - Let's Paint Snow (Birches)
January 14 - Brrr.... More Snow (Office and Lake)
January 21 - Exploration of Legs
January 29 - Exploration of Legs ... Continued
February 5 - Exploration of Legs .... to Landscapes
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