Course work: Four 45 second gestures. This filled my coursework sketchbook #4, and the blind contour drawing started #5. Further work on the Assignment Five drawing, which is progressing satisfactorily.
Reading:
Joaquin de la Puente Guernica: The Making of a Painting
Silex, Madrid, 1997
Pp. 165-185
(This book, which I purchased at the Prado several years ago, suffers from a very bad translation from Spanish, as well as from omission of many of the figures specifically referred to in the text. Space for the omitted figures could easily have been created by elimination of the unnecessary seventy pages of biography, and of the extended discussion of The Dream and Lie of Franco and several other works not really pertinent to the book’s topic. These measures, along with vigorous editing of the remaining text, might convert this to a volume I could recommend to others.)
Personal sketchbook work: A dressmaker’s dummy standing before a brightly lit window, attempted in marker, with the usual poor result.
Total time: 1hour 34 minutes
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