Course work: Four 30-second gestures and a five-minute contour, the latter perhaps the worst I’ve done in the entire series. A tonal drawing in charcoal pencil with white pastel highlights on a piece of tan paper. This was done from a section of one of my digital photographs: I thought it had some nice abstract shapes as well as some strong tones.
Reading:
Richard Osborne & Dan Sturgis Art Theory for Beginners
For Beginners LLC, Danbury, CT, USA, 2006
Pp. 178-186
(I was disappointed that the authors of this book viewed art theory primarily through the distorted lenses of the long-discredited hypotheses of Freud, and the failed political theories of Marx. Nothing erected on such a shaky foundation can be considered as having much validity: it is little more than academic nattering and perseveration, which, having taught at the post-doctoral level for eleven years, I have little difficulty in recognizing. The statements of many of the other “authorities” that they quote contain, upon careful study, hardly anything that is provable and very little that is logical…just more empty sounds from academia. Overall, this book is of little value except as ballast for the trash can…and it is too lightweight to serve even this modest function well.)
Personal sketchbook work: The skull of a large catfish, a surprisingly complex structure for such a relatively primitive organism.
Total time: 1hour 27 minutes
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