Course work: Completed the negative space plant drawing. It did not take as long as I had anticipated, but before I finished I was seeing aggregations of short pencil marks in my dreams. I would be better pleased with the result had I done it with pen and ink.
Did the blending with colored pencils portion of the exercise and made notations of my observations in my course sketchbook.
Reading:
Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane Wakeham A Guide to Drawing (Fifth Edition)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, Orlando, Florida, USA, 1995
Pp 63-79
Personal Sketchbook work: Made an attempt at a brush drawing of a reproduction of the “Willendorf Venus.” I found it very difficult to control the line. After having done one and treated it as just a two-value piece, I did a second (slimmed a bit to fit on the page) with application of a little wash. I was quite dissatisfied with both.
Weekly reflections on learning experience: This was a week of struggling with oil pastels, and of transitioning to new exercises. I found the negative space exercise more interesting than the preceding oil pastel work, probably in part because I have encountered and worked with the concept of negative space in the past, and in part because negative space is a concept, rather than a technique, and concepts have always been easier for me to grasp. I also enjoyed the appearance of my two negative-space efforts far more than the appearance of most of my efforts in the “Fruits and Vegetables in Color” exercise.
Total time:1 hour 47 min
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