Today I started my drawing course and it feels like it's going to be interesting and challenging too at time.
It was a real bunch of different people, different ages, nationalities and backgrounds which I think is wonderful. And a lot of them were coming to art for the first time, or had little experience. Which made me feel less worried that I don't really think of myself is an artist.
After introductions and a bit of talking the teacher got us done to business, and today we looked at positive and negative forms in drawing, in a spacial sense, and playing around with both the negative and the positive.
He started us off making marks on the paper, abstract markers and shadings to illustrate the positive or the foreground. I have to say I found it challenging drawing conceptionally and abstractly, with nothing in mind, not a figure or thing, but sort of nothing.
Secondly we moved on the finding a object and exphasizing the negative and background , drawing the eye away from positive to the space or the negative.
I choose the negative space between the clapse of my purse.
We further moved on try to incorporate more the one level of it I guess, the layers of positive and negative forms. This is my interpretation of a plastic bag of the table.
I also must admit I found it challenging drawing "real" things and objects rather than what I see in my head. I think these challenges are good for me, to explore and discover and understand ( or try to)
The teacher who i thought was a little weird at first, grew on me, and without wanting to sound vain he liked my sense of line , he said it's almost nervous, or tentative line like I'm feeling as I go. I told him I called it the wonk. I'm not sure he got it.
Anyway I hope this sort of makes sense, what we did today I'm still getting my head around it all, so I hope I've portrayed it OK
8 comments:
Sounds great!
I love the first days of art classes. Focusing on such simple things, but they mean so much to the artform.
I can see a leunig-esque man in the first pic. Can you?
"I like your sense of line" I read this in a napolean dynamite voice. Too funny. The voice that is, not the comment.
I think you've done an ace job. You're never too old to learn something new.
Enjoy the rest of the week.
I like your dresses too!
Jess - looks amazing, sounds fantastic - two thumbs up if I was the type of person to give thumbs up. Matt always talks about continuing the practise of drawing, and finding that rhythm. Day one of drawing and you're away. LovE!
Sounds like great fun Jess. Where are you doing the course?
what a fabulous start Jess, it sounds very exciting! enjoy the rest of your week, K
This sounds like so much fun!!! I love it and Also love being surprised with what I can come up with from each lesson to another :)
Enjoy it :0)
Sounds like an interesting course! I like the plastic bag drawing, before I read what you wrote about it I saw it as having a sadish face.
I look forward to hearing more about it, and good on you for doing something challenging too. : )
wow Jess, you are off and drawing!
probably feels weird to start off with such things you would never think of, like negative space.
soon you will be doing such amazing pieces (not that you aren't already) but ones that you will look at & think "wow"
and art teachers are always a little weird..in a good way, but they are at their own level of coolness.
hugs sweet girl, have fun!!
♥
p.s are you wearing a dress today :)
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