Course work: As the text suggested animal drawing trying a limited selection of colored pencils, I chose a bright orange, an orange-yellow, a blue-violet, black, and mid grey for an attempt at one of the cats. Results are not optimal, and I’ll try again later…perhaps I can catch her more soundly asleep.
Reading:
Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane Wakeham A Guide to Drawing (Fifth Edition)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, Orlando, Florida, USA, 1995
Pp 139-150
Weekly reflections on learning experience: A week of animal work, with varying success. Overall, I think I have made a little progress, especially with the cat drawings, probably because they are always underfoot, whereas working with the horses or the dogs involves going outside in rain, cold, or both. Wild animals are intermittently available, but require a telescope, binoculars, or a camera with a telephoto lens. I also did some experimentation with less-familiar media in my sketchbook this week.
It is interesting to reflect that I’ll have to go fishing in preparation for the next portion of the exercise, as whole fish are not available in area stores, and a frozen fish filet certainly won’t meet the requirement. This part of the learning experience probably wasn’t contemplated by the authors of the course!
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