Alysia's Art
Like the title says, it's my art. Enjoy! Constructive criticism welcome.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Queen Asha
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Light and Shadow
I loved this exercise. And in answer to one student's lament: 'i just want to complete one pose please', the prof had the model remain in one pose, with several breaks, for the duration of the class. I was able to complete 2 drawings in the time (3hrs). Again, the teacher pointed out my issues with proportion but, and i'm quite proud to say, was really pleased with my work (he held it up for others to see!! the equivalent to putting it on the fridge door lol).
Gesture Drawings!!! (warning, this is a long one)
...the practice of drawing a series of poses taken by a model in a short amount of time, often as an exercise with which to begin a life drawing session. The model may hold a pose for a few seconds or several minutes. More generally, a gesture drawing may be any drawing which emphasizes action or movement.
The point, according to my prof, is to help us, relax and open up our drawing more. He feels (and I agree) that as a class we are too tight, too focused on details. That we are too locked into drawing the outline precisely then immediately filling in detail. So this class was all about gesture drawings.
I had a hard time with this. With understanding what he really wanted from us. We started with 1 minute poses and the classes nearly had a heart attack. We'd barely put pencil to paper when the model moved. So he lengthened the time to 2 minutes. Here are the results:
Compressed charcoal on newsprint
He had us work with the flat side of the charcoal as opposed to the point to help keep the drawings loose and, well, gestural. He then reduced the time back to 1minute:
I got tired of using the flat side of the charcoal so snuck in one using the point:
Next, he had us pick a carrot (yes the vegetable) poured us each a measure of ink and had us continue with 2 min poses using the carrot dipped in ink. Why? I guess to throw us off a bit more, stretch our thinking and eye and technique. It was interesting. Messy but fun:
The final exercise had us sketching as the model moved slowly from pose to pose. This was the hardest bit for me. I struggled to complete several drawings on a page quickly, a full sketch for each pose:
This isn't really what he wanted from us. He explained he was looking more for a Vitruvian Man type of image, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man Oh well, maybe next time.
Lucretia part deux
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Field Trip..
Well, I got over it and went. With the staff's help I found my way into the European sculptures room and copped a squat in front of the statue of Lucretia:
I tore my 18"x24" piece of paper in half cuz the larger size was just too unwieldy for me without an easel. And after several false starts, I forgot about the folks and got to work. Here's what I ended up with:
So, for the time I spent on this (only 1 hour) I'm pretty happy. I should have worked on it longer but honestly, my butt was hurting, I was hungry and I had an 1.5 hr train ride to get back to the kids so I broke out. What's wrong with it? I think the arm she's resting on is too short, her left breast is too far to the left, the neck is too thin and all that fabric just threw me for a loop. I'm going to continue working from the picture this week. I'll post the new and improved version later in the week..
Anyway, that's it for now.. I'll share some more stuff (old and new, well not so much old cuz alot of it was destroyed or lost over the years but I have a few things to show) in future posts. Until later m'dears MUAH!
Fingerpainting!!
Sidenote: our model this week had major 'tude. I don't know why she chose to pose with her arms up. Of course she couldn't keep them up there for the whole 10 min. 2 min in her arms fall and we're all like HEY! and she gets mad like 'my arms hurt'. Not my problem chica. You're the dummy that chose to stick her arms in the air. smh. Anyway next pose:
Ok, I'm starting to get into it now. With some direction from the prof I think I'm doing much better. And I remember that I much prefer painting to drawing. I'm already planning to get back into painting in my, lol, 'spare time'.
I love this one! And I really like the idea of mixing media..will have to keep it up...