5 September 2009




Course work: Started work on Assignment 1, Section 5 (Still Life), p23. Selected a kitchen knife, a potato peeler, a paper knife, a box-cutter, and a pen knife. Sketched two arrangements, using ballpoint pen: the latter chosen in part to keep me from erasing and redrawing, as I tend to do, in part to provide more hatching practice, and in part to use a drawing tool I don’t particularly like.



Reading:

E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art,

Phaidon Press Limited, Oxford 1978

Chapters 4-5 (pp 65-93)





Keith Micklewright, Drawing

Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York (2005)

Chapter 4 (pp 42-56)



DeMartin, Jon, Value Basics (pp38-43)

in American Artist Drawing, Volume 6, Issue 21,Summer 2009

Interweave Press, Loveland, Colorado, USA

(A pretty clear introduction to tone, with a clever demonstration using a bent piece of cardstock.)



Personal sketchbook work: Four views of a pear, in pencil.



Total time: about 2 ½ hours