7 September 2009


Course work: Worked on Assignment 1, Section 5 (Still Life), p 24. Did four thumbnail sketches of two squash and an onion on a plate, switching to pencil for these in the interest of variety and expediency. Selected one of these, and started a charcoal drawing on A3 paper. Think I need to find some paper with more “tooth” as the charcoal adheres poorly to this and uniform darks are difficult to produce.



Reading:

(No author listed: Translated by Natalia Tizon), Art of Sketching

Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 2007

Pp 6-60



Personal sketchbook work: A sketch of the dock from across the pond, done in my pocket sketchbook. (Worth trying again late in the afternoon, when light pattern should be a bit more favorable.) A hasty sketch of part of my remarkably untidy desktop in my A4 sketchbook.



Total time: about 2 1/2 hours