I signed up for the Life Drawing class through the Art Academy of Cincinnati. We had our first meeting today and, although I started the class (and ended it) with a migraine, I was very pleased. The instructor, Carin Hebenstreit, is a painter with a gallery/studio in the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati, and she was very helpful already. There are many of the students who have taken this class again and again from her. I would think after a time you'd have learned what you need to know and would work on your own but they may use it as a way to get experience with models they can't afford otherwise.
Anyway, she helped me sight up and measure things and see how I was elongating things (and making the head too big - yep! Sandy told me I always do this!). I'm hoping to get better under her instruction = 12 classes. Wish me luck!
Both of these are graphite pencil on Aquabee sketch paper.
As soon as I get rid of the migraine symptoms, I have homework from Sandy's class (similar to Myrna Wacknov's challenges) but I have to do a good value study first. We will be working with the same photograph each week - 3 weeks or 4 - and using different design elements and colors, etc. Here is the photo I'm going to use, taken at Shaker Village by Jerry, my in-house photographer :)
5 comments:
Your drawing is MUCh improved already, and you were getting good anyway. So glad you are taking her class. Thanks fo the report.
You've done a fantastic job, especially on the angles of the legs and feet...really nice.
And I guess you haven't really given up the Challenge, you're just doing it in Sandy's class, right? Looking forward to seeing what you do with that yummy pic.
I like your life drawings. And I admire the project with the picture, doing it again and again for some weeks. That's exactly what I s h o ul d do and still can't: to do a motif again and again...
I can see such improvement in your drawing. I so admire your persistence with learning and practicing what you learn. What I like on this last figure is the way you caught the gesture so easily and the shading.
Thanks so much for the comments on the life drawing but I can't take the whole credit as my teacher, Carin, helped me see where I'd flatted shapes and elongated others, etc. Then I did the 2nd one alone with no critique/help because I was seeing it more clearly.
Claudia, doing the same thing over and over in a series is hard for me, too, even if I know it's good for me - sort of like medicine I don't want to take at times!
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