Course work: Using a pair of paper “L’s”, I drew a few rectangles of A4 proportion over yesterday’s preliminary sketches, looking for better compositions. One of the sketches yielded two additional possibilities, one only one, and one none. I then drew three more preliminary sketches using markers (one in tones of grey, two in approximate colors), to get a little more comfortable with them before the upcoming marker portions of the assignment, and again used the pair of paper “L’s” to seek improved compositions. Markers themselves are an unfamiliar-enough medium that I did rather poorly with this second set of sketches. However, I think that I have now arrived at a suitable composition for the next part of the exercise.
Reading:
Roberta Weir Leonardo’s Ink Bottle: The Artist’s Way of Seeing
Celestial Arts Publishing, Berkeley, California, 1998
Pp 176-217
(I didn’t get a great deal out of this book…from my viewpoint, it was very heavy on pseudospirituality and transcendence and extraordinarily light on useful information.)
Personal Sketchbook work: As a refresher, I did a small self-portrait. Just to make myself really wish I’d done something else, I did this one with a quill pen I cut from a wild turkey feather. It is clear that I have a good bit more to learn about using a pen-knife with skill, to say nothing of using the quill. I also did some additional work on the colored pencil project workbook project started on 25 December, which is proving a longer project than I had anticipated.
Total time: 2 hours 25 minutes
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