Course work: More work on the A3 oil pastel drawing, applying finishing touches to the fruits and vegetables, and working on the foreground and background.
Reading:
Bernard Chaet The Art of Drawing (3rd Ed)
Harcourt College Publishers, Orlando, Florida, USA, 1983
Pp 222-266
(This is not a college textbook of drawing, though one would initially think so. It is, rather, an account of the author’s method of teaching drawing, and of student responses to that method. The chapters outlining the teaching approach to various areas of drawing are interesting, though not directly applicable to the solo student (or even the student in an organized class). In my opinion, the large number of drawings included and commented upon constitute the strongest portion of the book, although the short chapter on the value of copying was also of interest.)
Personal Sketchbook work: Finished work on the colored pencil project workbook project started on 25 December. (The instructions required filling in of the white squares with two overlaid shades of yellow in addition to the work that I did, but I could not see that the limited amount of learning to be obtained from that effort was worth the several hours it would require.) In my pocket sketchbook, sketched an oak gall found while I was trimming trees. In my A4 sketchbook, a piece of mistletoe found while trimming an oak, sketched in colored pencil.
Total time: 2 hours 14 minutes
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