Course work: A second ten-minute seated figure sketch was only moderately successful. Two recumbent sketches showed some significant shortcomings, and a deep squat proved too uncomfortable for my model to hold for the full ten minutes, and part of it is completed from memory.
Reading:
Kenneth Clark The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1972
Pp. 173-197
Personal sketchbook work: Yet another attempt at the most suspicious of our cats who upon hearing the “skritch” of a pencil left for a safer place. At least I got a rough outline down, in what amounted to a two-minute gesture sketch.
Weekly reflections on learning experience: Past transitions between assignments have taught me that I can expect to do particularly bad work early in a new assignment, and this week has proved no exception. Shifting one’s thoughts from drawing, say, trees, which can be designed to look as one desires, to figures, which cannot, requires a certain shifting of mental gears. The two-minute sketches have proved a particular challenge, although I find that I like some of them better than the ten-minute ones, though I am unable to decide exactly why. I do think that taking a few days to review the work from Assignment Two will prove very helpful with the Assignment Five work.
Total time: 1 hour 4 minutes
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