Course work: Arranged another setup of seashells and sketched it using colored pencils of approximately yellow ochre, burnt siena, and burnt umber colors, near enough the actual colors to work tonally without offending the eye by gross misrepresentation of color. I think at this point I have done enough work on this exercise, though I remain unsure I have met its objective.
Started work on the “Drawing fruit and vegetables in colour” exercise by drawing a tomato three times, using three different types of colored pencils.
Reading:
Nick Meglin Drawing From Within
Warner Books, Inc., New York, 1999
Pp 57-73
Personal Sketchbook work: Having become somewhat weary of “natural” subjects as a steady diet, I drew one of my manikins; I used colored pencil in order not to stray too far afield.
Still life check and log: I think my three monochromatic tonal drawings are far more successful than are the three I did in color. I had difficulty in using color as a tonal medium without consideration of local color. The drawing using primarily line was more immediately successful, in part because I had a far clearer idea of just what I was supposed to do to complete the exercise than I had with the tonal drawings.
I was able to achieve some sense of depth, most apparent in the monochromatic pieces. Overlapping, shading of each item, and shadows were the primary methods used. Neither atmospheric nor geometric perspective played any significant role in the tonal drawings, though perspective was of some use in the line drawing.
Being restricted to line makes it difficult to express shapes well: is that round object a sphere, a circle, or a flat disc? Tone without the use of line (except to represent areas of tone) is easier: my problem was with the instructions, as I have commented upon perhaps to excess.
Total time: 2 hours 3 minutes
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