Values abound!

Here is my still life ball and the drawing that I created showing the values of light and dark on the ball.

Now my illustration of this ball as a still life.

Below you will also find my other still life objects.

Believe it or not the easiest shape I found to illustrate was in fact the ball.  The others I didn't find as enjoyable.

Here is my still life objects all together in a composition to draw.

Space the Final Frontier!

Gesture drawing.  The more you do the better you become, the more you relax. 

Again here I was starting to focus on details and forgot about shope and action.

Sorry this one is hard to see.  I really don't like using the pencils. 

Our next project was to use different pieces of furniture and overlap them somehow to make a composite picture.  Here is a contour picture of three pieces of funiture.  An antique dresser, coffee table and managerie shelf.

Here is the positive space illustration.  Everything that is negative space is colored in dark. 

Here is the same composite overlapping picture with the negative space left white and the positive space colored in. 

Geometric white shapes drawn with soft graphite pencil in contour line drawing.

Negative Space geometric shapes.

Same figures showing the negative space as white and the positive space colored in. 

Positive space of Geometric pictures.  Here the negative space is black and the positive space is white.

Space a New Frontier and all its dimensions!

This is my illusion of 3 dimensional.  However we know that it is only two dimensional. But the depth that O'keefe shows in a flower is absolutely astonishing to me. 


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I found this image on Google images.  This is definitely a 3 dimensional image for me.  I really liked it amazes me how the color pops off the page to appear as if you can grasp the colored threads.

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This is another example of 2 dimesional with 3 dimensional work by O'Keefe.  I often find O'Keefe's work illusionistic at times.  Giving you perception that there is depth and yet sometimes there is not.  

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This is definitely an examle of flat art.  When looking at it I really don't have a definition of dimensions in this painting.  Although it contains shading and doesn't show depth required for 3 dimentional illustrations. 

Here is another selection for an example of flat art. 

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This is an example of ambigouos art.  There is the affect of two dimensional but O'Keefe created the flower to be almost life like with depth even using white.  Another of my favorites

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This is an example of Illusionistic Art.  I absolutely in love with this kind of art.  I find it so fascinating that the Artist has made a side walk come to life with chalk.  I found picture after picture.  Truely amazing to me. 
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Here are my objects all painted and ready to go!

 

Space and drawing can take on it a form all on its own.  I hope you have enjoyed my examples of spacial art.  I know I certainly enjoyed finding the examples to show you. 

Gesture Drawings and Contour Line Drawings!

I found this difficult the first time that I did gesture drawing.   I wanted to make sure that the details were in place, when that is not the point of gesture drawing at all. It is getting the movement/motion of the individual.  After another 20 minutes with it.  Here is, I feel a better attempt. 

I felt much better about this attempt after 20 minutes of struggling with no detail.  The object is to relax and let go in gesture drawing.

This is my attempt at Blind Contour drawing.  Yikes! But my understanding is that it is supposed look like this. It was almost freeing to let go and just draw and not worry about where you were on the page, just focusing on the outer edges of things and shapes of them and where they connected.

This was my Orginizational Drawing.  I liked this as it gave me a prespective on where things were on the page and the lines and angles of the lines. 

This is my Contour Line Drawing.  Please find the picture of what I was drawing below all of these images.  By far this one is my least favorite to do.  I am although reletutant to say it did help me look at additional lines of what I was drawing. 

Continuous Media Drawings!

This one is called "The Birds"

I used conte crayons and wanted to use the eraser on it as well to see what would happen.  I liked the effect the plastic eraser gave me.  It reminded me of the birds that are on the farm that fly in huge flocks all around my house every day!

 This was  made with a variety of graphite pencils.  I call this one scarecrow. Just reminded me of it.  I think I was watching " The Wizard of Oz!" I changed my movement to be vertical and in a circle when I was drawing my shapes.  I really didn't have an intent idea.  It just came out the way!

This one is called " Farmer sleeping Chickens moving"  I used india ink and a flat brush as opposed to a round brush.  I liked it but didn't like the fact that I had to keep dipping my brush in the ink well to get more color.  I also didn't like the control or lack of control on the paper with the ink.

"The Storm" Medium was vine charcoal.  Love the feel of it, but hate that it is so easy to smudge.  

"New Years Eve in Times Square" Graphite pencils just went crazy not really paying attention and ended up looking like the title suggests.

Pen and Paper drawing!

Drawing I Assignment: Self Portrait!