Leetie Art

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Life takes over

Home remodeling projects plus having a kid home from school have left me little time to dedicate to keeping up! I may not post very frequently for a little while. I am still taking a weekly art class, so I should at least be able to post what I do there. Currently doing an acrylic painting of cliffs and seaside with flowers. Should be done with it by next week. Until then!

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Art class - second project

Pastels

18x24"

They matted and wrapped it for me at the studio, so please forgive the wrapping glare.
~3.5 hours

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Art class - first project

Colored pencil

Prismacolor black and grey pencils

~ 3.5 hours

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Painting Course Lesson 6: Gesture Drawings and Observation

All about loose movement, quick gesture drawings

Drawing #10: 30 Drawings, 30 Minutes (30 Gesture Drawings)

Scotch tape, large bottle of eye drops, vacuum attachment, child's croc, pliers, small flashlight, clothespin, clip thingy, simple flute, dog toy, fork, spool of thread.

Camera, key chain, candy, screwdriver, hand mixer attachment, battery, rolling pin, soda can, strangely-shaped glass bottle.

Remote, paintbrush, phone, wooden cactus, gyroscope, measuring cup, hairspray, pill bottle, stapler.

Drawing #11: Draw All the things! (Observational Still Life: Small Objects), 1 hour
I ran out of room! Maybe 26 things? Ordering larger-size paper today.

Drawing #12: Rembrandt Copy

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Lesson 5 from Painting-Course.com: Symbols of Drawing

Drawing 8: Drawing from memory:

Assignment: Study a photo for 3 minutes then draw from memory. This illustrates the fact that we use learned symbols for drawing -- symbols that have been learned in childhood for eyes, hair, nose, etc. Betty Edwards would say that those symbols were taken from storage in the left side of the brain, just like the symbols "A" "B" and "C." When I thought of drawing the eyes, I brought out the way I draw eyes, not the eyes that were in the photograph that I studied for 3 minutes.

Drawing 9: Drawing from a photo (sideways):

Assignment: Place the photograph on its side and draw the shapes and shadows that you see. For this drawing, the stored symbols were not utilized; observed shapes were (right brain). Though I drew the shapes and shadows that I saw, I still think I had some of those verbally-identified things in mind from time to time ("eyes," "nose", etc.). I wonder how different it would have been upside-down.

I didn't do very well sticking to the shading instructions. I was supposed to keep the shading to simple horizontal lines. I did it on the neck but that's about it.

Original photo:

I may try this again with a photo that has more defined shadows. It is definitely interesting to see the difference between stored symbols and the "artist's eye." I'd like to do better.

Another try:

Did this one upside down.

Picture Plane exercise from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

I did not like this exercise. Drawing directly on the glass was interesting, I guess; but I did not like copying from the glass to paper. Plus, I was not able to replicate the position of my hand. I put off doing this as long as I could.

The glass plane:

If you look closely, you can see the drawing of my hand. This was made by balancing the glass directly upon my left hand, closing one eye, and drawing the contours of my hand directly on the glass with a marker.