Course work: Commenced the initial work for the final Assignment Three drawing. In order to test media pairs, I quickly sketched four small still lifes including four very different objects: a plant, a lemon, a human skull, and a small painter’s manikin. I made no attempt at accurately depicting shape, only general form. I then used marker and colored pencil, ink and brush plus colored pencil, pen plus marker, and graphite pencil and sanguine chalk. The pen and marker, and the marker and colored pencil, show the most promise from this set. The combination of graphite and sanguine chalk allows some interesting effects, but I think it highly unlikely to be acceptable for this part of the assignment…it would have been useful in Assignment Two. I plan to do several more of these media combinations before narrowing my choices and trying some more leisurely studies.
Reading:
Michiel Plomp Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings and Prints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006
Pp 2-48 (A monograph work on Rembrandt, his students, and his followers, and the difficulty often encountered in separating their works.)
Personal Sketchbook work: A colored pencil sketch of the head of our orange tabby.
Weekly reflections on learning experience: A good week, with a feeling of accomplishment. Not having tried to draw fish since some of my zoology courses (50 yours ago!) I’m fairly pleased with my results. Other work went reasonably well, too.
Total time: 2 hours 12 minutes
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