Course work: Added a few marks to suggest a background in my line-drawing still life. I think I’m about done: will look at it again tomorrow.
Reading:
Roberta Weir Leonardo’s Ink Bottle: The Artist’s Way of Seeing
Celestial Arts Publishing, Berkeley, California, 1998
Pp 88-111
Personal Sketchbook work: Returned to the oil pastel sketch from yesterday, and learned that more color can be added after the first applications are blended with turpentine. Drew a little cluster of pussy willow catkins in my pocket sketchbook.
Weekly thoughts on learning experience: I continue to work along on the course, although I find some of the exercises more interesting than others. I also continue to find some of the instructions confusing or self-contradicting, and some exercises appear to repeat work previously done in Assignment One. A good editor could significantly improve the text. My sketchbook work has been sub-par lately, in part because unusually wet weather (and the final, irreparable failure of my rubber boots) has kept me almost-house-bound for much of the past several weeks, and in part because I can find little that seems interesting enough to draw. Seasonal affective disorder may play a role as well.
Total time: 32 minutes
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