Course work: I found the instructions on “Still Life Group in Tone” to be among the more confusing ones I’ve encountered in the course. To me, a drawing in tone (or value, in U.S. terminology) is done with black, white, and greys, or with white (or black) and shades of a single fairly neutral color (e.g., sanguine Conte’). I know that color has tone, but the instructions call for the use of three different colors to produce a drawing in tone. This makes my setup, which is fairly monochromatic, consisting of a deer skull and three pine cones in different stages of opening, a real challenge. In response, on A3 paper, I quickly did one sketch with black, midgrey, and white pastels. For the second I chose primary yellow, red, and blue pastels. I’m not happy with either piece, but the second is particularly unsatisfactory.
I’ll try a different, more conventional, setup as further work on this exercise.
Reading:
Roberta Weir Leonardo’s Ink Bottle: The Artist’s Way of Seeing
Celestial Arts Publishing, Berkeley, California, 1998
Pp 112-128
Sean Dye The Mixed Media Sourcebook
Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 2004
Pp 100-138
(An interesting book, potentially useful to me in the future.)
Personal Sketchbook work: A colored pencil sketch of a portion of a cedar twig, with berries (these berries are an important food source for birds during the winter).
Total time: 2 hours 29 minutes
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