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Shadows, Still-Lifes & Saturday
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Was this email forwarded to you? Welcome to the Drawing Board #17!Quick note from the studio before the week gets away from me- Still-Life Club is back, I'm doing a live portrait demo this Saturday, and I have work hanging in a show I'm proud to be part of. More on all of it below! Still-Life Club is Back:After taking a break, Still-Life Club is back! Today's the last day to grab hi-res images of these David Feature references before the our April images go live! This is one of my favorite ways to study the interaction of form and structure: work with the same subject under two different lighting situations (in this case, turning the spot light in the studio on vs having natural window light.) I'm always amazed how shadow shapes can seem to change the proportion and character of a form! Join Me for a Virtual Studio Session This Saturday!I'll be demoing a portrait drawing during a special "Sketchbook Saturday" session, live over Zoom. In this live 4.5-hour session, I'll draw a portrait from start to finish while thinking out loud, narrating every decision, and every adjustment as it happens. This isn't a polished lecture; It's a real studio session! We'll move through anatomy and structure, calligraphy and mark making/hatching, and tonal development- not as isolated topics, but as they actually arise in the course of building a drawing and how they all contribute to "likeness"! Q&A is open and encouraged for the entire session. Ask anything, at any point- I'm looking forward to talking art with you! Can't make the whole session? No worries- the recording will be available without expiration the day after, so you can take your time with it.
"As to the Greeks, [...] they all agree that it originated in tracing lines round the human shadow […omnes umbra hominis lineis circumducta]."
-Pliny The Elder on the Origin of Painting
My drawing "The Origin of Painting" is one of two works I have on display at Millersville University in the Echo Valley Art Group's 81st Annual Exhibition. Honored to be a part of such a historic group and I'm very excited to show with them. The last time my work was hanging in the Eckert Gallery was when I had my own solo exhibition, "Echoes", there in 2018. Pliny traced the origin of painting back to a single act: fixing what we care about onto a surface, even if it's just a shadow of what we love. Thanks for reading, and I hope to see some of you Saturday as we pursue the portrait. Whether you make it live or catch the recording after, I'm looking forward to drawing with you! Happy drawing, https://learn.theopensketchbook.com/ |
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