Thursday, March 05, 2009
There is also more that I have been working on, of course. In Ted Xaras' course, "Methods of the Masters," we have been making endless sketches and studies of one model in different poses. The goal is to lay out a finished composition (technically, a "carto
on") using 3 different poses, and then scale it up to something ve
ry large where it will look, hopefully, like three different subjects interacting with each other. I'm
thinking 3' x 4' for the scaleup and wondering how I would even handle that, while he seems to be thinking that that would be pretty small. I feel like I'm getting more than I bargained for in this course.
In Doug Martenson's course on figure painting, he had us doing quick sketches of all kinds for the first few classes. We're painting now, although I still have yet to come up with a finished painting that I like. All my figures are just stiff. No grace or interest. However, several of the side projects involved making charcoal drawings, starting with a neutral gray paper and using only black or white but NOT both for the drawing. There was this interesting model in an open student's session, so I sketched her. In his critique, Doug didn't like it that I had used both black and white for the drawing. I take that as praise, since I used only white and NO BLACK for it, no matter how much it looks otherwise.
on") using 3 different poses, and then scale it up to something ve
ry large where it will look, hopefully, like three different subjects interacting with each other. I'm
thinking 3' x 4' for the scaleup and wondering how I would even handle that, while he seems to be thinking that that would be pretty small. I feel like I'm getting more than I bargained for in this course.In Doug Martenson's course on figure painting, he had us doing quick sketches of all kinds for the first few classes. We're painting now, although I still have yet to come up with a finished painting that I like. All my figures are just stiff. No grace or interest. However, several of the side projects involved making charcoal drawings, starting with a neutral gray paper and using only black or white but NOT both for the drawing. There was this interesting model in an open student's session, so I sketched her. In his critique, Doug didn't like it that I had used both black and white for the drawing. I take that as praise, since I used only white and NO BLACK for it, no matter how much it looks otherwise.
