Drawings: Using color

We had to use color for darks and lights. Interesting and a greater challenge.

Drawings: Face (2 versions)

This is my favorite piece from my drawing course. Based again on a black & white photograph. Medium is ink. The second version includes another piece I was working on. My instructor walked by and saw them drying on a board and liked the two oriented as they are below. Not sure what I think it is interesting but I really like the face all by itself.

Man's Face

Two drawings together. Lower one is upside down.

Drawings: Outdoor Observations

Our last day of class was spent doing observational drawings outside. We needed to include foreground, middle ground and background. I used powdered charcoal and vine charcoal.

Loring Park #1

Loring Park #2

Drawings: Girl in Window

This drawing was from a photograph. We used powdered and vine charcoal so I had to erase to create highlights. This medium was one of my favorites. I will revisit it again in tomorrows post.

Drawings: Skeleton Face and All White Still Life

Two drawings posted today. First was a favorite of my instructor. We had to use different items to create different elements of a face with out being too obvious about it. I used a skeleton, sea shell, corn cob, a piece of twine and a stick. The media is india ink.

The second drawing was of an all white still life. Nice enough but not really successful. I did a lot of blending and I would like to experiment on this without using the blending technique.

Skeleton Face

All White Still Life

Drawings: Man walking a dog pulling a wagon carrying a plant

This assignment was fun. Had to draw our interpretation of a man walking a dog pulling a wagon carrying a plant. This is the dog looking back at the man and the reflection of the scene in the dogs eyes.

Man walking a dog pulling a wagon carrying a plant.

This assignment while necessary and informative it was a challenge and pain. A huge still life was set up and we had to choose a section to draw. The object was to draw the spaces between the objects. If you accurately draw the space between or negative space than you will end up with the object.

Observational Drawing

Drawings: Trees

Working with ink and white tempura paint. The goal was to create the shadows and highlights.

Drawings: Angel Skeleton?

For this assignment we had to build a sculpture by wrapping an object with paper and rope. We then had to draw the sculpture. I chose the medium of ink and white tempura paint. This is what I came up with...I think it's pretty sweet!

Drawings

This past summer I enrolled in a drawing course. Finally have had time to photograph my work. It was a great experience and I learned a great deal. This drawing was done with charcoal. It's a piece of driftwood.

Observational Drawing #1

Bull Skull Charcoal Sketch

When I was a kid we visited my Mother's relatives in North Dakota. They raised cattle and I found this old bull skull and was dragging it around and I was allowed to keep it. It was hung over my bed for years as a child with my western style room decor. Now it hangs above my desk. I'm taking a drawing class right now and decided to to a practice charcoal sketch.