Awakening
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Creative Every Day: Eight
Blink. The little man sat up in a high chair tonight, sipped from a straw for the first time, and ate miso soup (well the broth and tofu anyway). He's growing up too fast.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Creative Every Day: Five
catnap
One book that I have started to study and that I think will be very helpful is Master Class in Figure Drawing, lectures by Robert Beverly Hale compiled and edited by Terence Coyle. Coyle writes in his preface ,"Beginners see detail first. Consequently, their structure usually falls apart from the start" (11). If I had been in a revival meeting, I could not have been more pierced through with conviction. This is what I do. I am not confident of being able to capture the whole figure or scene so I start with a tiny part. It is easier to convince myself that I am capable of getting the eye or the hand right than it is to convince myself that I can accurately sketch the entire figure. So I start with the eye. Then I add the ear. Each is only a little off. But somehow they do not seem to belong to each other.
"Experienced artists," Coyle asserts, "see masses--big, simple, abstract elements which they first arrange on their paper or canvas--and then may proceed to more detail, which is incorporated into the dominant abstract design" (11). So this is what I am trying to do. It is hard. Not just the doing of it, but the showing of it to others. When one starts with the larger shapes. It is glaringly obvious when one does not know what one is doing, when one cannot comprehend the relationship between parts of the whole. So the sketches may grow worse for a while. But I think in the long run, this approach is a good plan.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Creative Everyday Challenge: 2
Yes, I sat down and sketched stuff I probably should have been putting into a box. It feels a little luxurious to take five minutes solely for myself.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Creative Every Day
This month I'll be participating in the Creative Every Day challenge. The theme for this month is black and white. Since I've already been sketching in graphite this year and posting on twitter under #SketchTheMess, it seemed like a perfect tie in. I missed the first two days, but I'm not worrying about that. For the rest of the month I'll be posting my sketches here, not just on twitter as usual. I hope some of you will join in as well.
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