28 August 2009

Course work: Detected an error of perception in last night’s work (a hazard of working too late at night); drew a corrected sketch with dip pen. Drew six tonal blocks with four tones each, (page 17) using a variety of tools: discovered that keeping the lines parallel and evenly spaced is a difficult task for me.

Reading:

The Story of Art, E.H. Gombrich
Phaidon Press Limited, Oxford 1978
Chapters 1-3 (pp 19-64)

How to Use Your Eyes James Elkins
Routledge, New York & London (2000)
Chapters 26-32, Postscript (pp 196-245)
This book by an art professor includes several chapters of particular interest to artists, but contains enough diverse material to be of interest to almost any inquiring mind.

Personal sketchbook work: Sketched a page of small kitchen tools in A4 sketchbook, some of which may be useful in later work.

Total time: apx 3 hours

29 Aug 2009

Course work: None today

Reading:
The Drawing Book, Sarah Simblet
Dorling Kindersley, London 2005
Objects and Instruments (pp 89-105)


Drawing Keith Micklewright
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York (2005)
Chapters 2-3 (pp 28-40)

The Complete Drawing Course, Ian Simpson
Running Press, Philadelphia, PA 1993
Lesson 4 (pp 34-39)

Personal sketchbook work: A careful A4 sketchbook drawing of three peaches on a plate, using Conte crayon (a medium of which I’m not fond), based on an exercise in Lesson 4, The Complete Drawing Course, by Ian Simpson.


Total time: over two hours