Photo of Summer Life Drawing Class

drawing the figure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4353W2Xqm0

Video about drawing the hand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUbt1l4tBJg

Final Presentation August 8, 2013

FINAL FOR LIFE DRAWING


Our last class and final for life drawing will be held on Thursday August 8, 2013.

You are to prepare and present three of your best drawings to the class from each of the following disaplines:

1. Charcoal or Conte Cayon
2. Pen and Ink
3. Graphite Sticks of Pencils.

Your presentation should not be more than five minutes in length and you may use either a power Point Presentation or the actual artwork. You should introduce yourself to the class at the beginning of your presentation and tell them what the mediums are to be and why you have chosen to display each drawing. 

You might discuss what you gained in working with the medium - for example maybe this was the first time you worked with pen and ink or ink wash. Maybe it was learning to draw with your left hand or to improve your drawing skills in while working with a live model. 

You may use 3 x 4 cards to present your material for reference. 

If you have any questions about the final, please do not hesitate to email me for greater feedback.

Good Luck,

Barbara

Drawing from imagination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqxMMEUvtJc

Leila Beverleigh's Website

www.leilabeverleigh.com

drawing the eye homework

HOMEWORK

Copy pages 80 and 81 from your textbook. Due next Monday.

Blind Contour Drawing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKHVqbM_xLU&list=PLrYlp_a8J9kAj1OY9OSt_atve13_eR_15

Will Cotton's Website

http://www.willcotton.com/

http://vimeo.com/16656869

http://www.artcritical.com/2008/01/22/will-cotton/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHlNZ1AIhCE


The above link is an interview with Will Cotton. I think you will find it interesting.
By the way he is represented by Mary Boone Gallery in New York which is one of the most prestigious gallery in the world.

Drawing classes within the community

http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/Departments/CommunityServices/Arts.aspx

Ink Washes and Homework Assignment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYNw6d2aCU


Copy the three drawings in ink on page 200and 201. These homework drawings will be due next Tuesday.

Also, view the website of Erik Gist at http://www.erikgist.com Then, read about about "Developing Forms". Pay particular attention to the drawing of the woman and the various shadows: core, shadow, reflected light, and highlight.

Drawing Sessions at SJSU

Rick Arnason, one of the models that we at DeAnza hire to work for us sent me the following information to pass onto interested students. This is a great opportunity for students to continue their practice of drawing from the figure.

"I confirmed with a SHM officer that the sessions are open to the general public and that the fee per session is $4.  They have a website: www.shrunkenheadman.com for anyone looking for more information.

The open draw sessions are every Tuesday and Thursday from 1PM to 4PM in Room 312 of the Art Building at SJSU (third floor).  The closest student parking lot (a fee lot) is between 9th and 10th Streets on East San Fernando Street (directly across the street from SJSU).  The last day of drawing for the summer session is Thursday August 8th.  I will be the model on Thursday August 1st"

Definition of CHIAROSCURO

1

: pictorial representation in terms of light and shade without regard to color

2

a : the arrangement or treatment of light and dark parts in a pictorial work of art b : the interplay or contrast of dissimilar qualities (as of mood or character)

3

: a 16th century woodcut technique involving the use of several blocks to print different tones of the same color; also : a print made by this technique

4

: the interplay of light and shadow on or as if on a surface

5

: the quality of being veiled or partly in shadow

Tenebroso is an Italian word, literally meaning dark and gloomy. 

Both tenebroso and its English equivalent, tenebrism, refer to a

Style of painting characterized by high contrast between light and shade – emphasis placed on chiaroscuro to achieve dark dramatic effects.

Frequently the main subjects of terebrist pictures are illuminated by a single source of light, as if a spotlight shone upon them, leaving other areas in darkness.

Also called “dark manner.” or “night paintings”.

Artists:

  Caravaggio

  Michelangelo

  Georges De La Tour

  Rembrandt

Shape of Content by Ben Shahn

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674805704

The Cribsheet: Barron Storey's

HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEK: DRAW IN YOUR SKETCH BOOK
If you can not think of what to draw, copy images from your textbook or just draw your hands.


http://thecribsheet-isabelinho.blogspot.com/2008/11/barron-storeys-adjustment-of-sidney.html


http://barronstorey.blogspot.com/


http://opusartsupplies.com/how/product-qa/tips-keeping-sketchbook

Richard Diebenkorn Information

http://diebenkorn.famsf.org/about-diebenkorn

If you can attend this exhibition, I will give you 20 extra points -- just bring me the ticket from the show.
This was one of the greatest artists of San Francisco Bay area art movement in the fifties and sixties, and he helped to put San Francisco on the artistic map.

Homework for this week

HOMEWORK:

Copy from your book the following pages:

342, 343. 344 and 345 (these copies will be due next Monday)

Drawing Supplies and Working with Conte Crayons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSeePOdMOHs

Conte Crayon Drawings

Invented by the Frenchman Nicolas-Jacques Conte, the same man who invented the modern lead pencil in the 18th century, conte crayons - a popular medium for sketching and more formal drawing - are made from pigment and graphite held together with a gum binder and grease. Resembling pastels in appearance and consistency, they are slightly harder and more oily. Conte crayon comes in square sticks and pencils.
Colour Palette
Conte crayons produce a similar effect to charcoal, except that - being harder - they can create finer lines as well as shading and broad tonal areas. They come in a wide variety of colours and shades, although many conte artists still prefer to stick to the traditional palette, combining black,white and grey with the earthy pigments - sepia, sanguine red and brown. (White crayons are often used to create highlights.) These colours are ideal for nude drawings and portraits, giving them an aged appearance resembling works by Leonardo, Michelangelo or Rubens.



http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/drawing/conte-crayon-drawings.htm

The above information was taken from the above website. You may want to visit this website for more information on working with conte-crayon.

charcoal drawing video

http://youtu.be/bS63SiG3dws

http://harryally.com/DRAWING/drawing--figure-study-dorot.html#previous-photo

Charcoal is used in art for drawing, making rough sketches in painting and is one of the possible media for making a parsemage. It must usually be preserved by the application of a fixative. Artists generally utilize charcoal in three forms:

Vine charcoal is created by burning sticks of wood (usually willow or linden/Tilia) into soft, medium, and hard consistencies.

Powdered charcoal is often used to "tone" or cover large sections of a drawing surface. Drawing over the toned areas darkens it further, but the artist can also lighten (or completely erase) within the toned area to create lighter tones.

Compressed charcoal charcoal powder mixed with gum binder compressed into round or square sticks. The amount of binder determines the hardness of the stick.

Compressed charcoal is used in charcoal pencils.

Above information taken from Wikipedia

Body Drawing Proportions

  THE-BODY DRAWING PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY

A perfect body is 7 1/2 or 8 heads high, slightly rearranged for this artist. The neck space is 1/4 of one head-length, and it starts under the chin of that top first head.
The second head is the shoulders head. It is the top of three trunk heads and is drawn under this neck space.
One quarter of one head down in this second head is the shoulder line. This leaves space for the neck-support muscles above the clavicle.
This shoulder line is two head-lengths (two widths on a female) wide and is the top line of the torso triangle that extends down to the space between the legs, or the chest triangle that only extends down to the hip line.
The chin to the shoulder line is 1/2 of one heads-length. That is, 1/4 head extra neck space and 1/4 head down on the second head.
The nipples separation space equals one-head length, at the bottom of the second head.
The nipples to the belly button equals one head-length, ending at the top of the third torso head down.
From the belly button to the space between the legs is one head, ending at the bottom of the third torso head. This leg space is actually 4 and 1/4 heads down from the top, including the 1/4 head neck space or... 3 and 3/4 heads up from the bottom, making for a total of 8 heads high. Vertically overlap the two center heads by 1/4 of a head. The top three torso heads are lowered 1/4 head because of the empty neck space.
The width of the waist at the belly button is one head length wide, not head-width wide.
From the top line of the hip or trunk triangle line to the space between the legs, is 3/4's of one head-length high up into the lowest torso head, and is two head-widths wide, not more.
At the center of the body is the bend-line, which forms the top line of this third, smallest triangle, the bend-line-triangle. The top line is 1/4 head above the space between the legs and two head-widths wide, not more.
This bend-line can also be measured as four heads up from the base, which has no added 1/4 head space for the neck as happened in the top 4 heads.
The big torso triangle is from the shoulder line to the space between the legs. The second triangle is the hip triangle, marking the hip bones down to the space between the legs. The third bend line triangle is the quarter head high triangle within the 3rd trunk head.
The rib cage can be represented by a 3x4 oval two heads high, starting at the top of the second head.
The upper arm, from the shoulder triangles outside edge, is 1 and 1/2 heads long.
The lower arm is 1 and 1/4 heads long.
The hand is 3/4 of a head long, equal to the average face height.
The chest side view is one head-width wide at the nipples.
The upper arm, which was 1 and 1/4 head-lengths, connects
from the center of the shoulder ball which is a quarter head circle reaching the end of the shoulder line.
Just below the leg space, the legs and the body are at their widest.
Two egg shaped heads, side-by-side, upside-down, will fit into the trunk area.
From the outside points of the bend-line triangle
to the bottom of the knee caps is two head-lengths. The bend-line is always considered the center of the body.
The knee cap is a 1/4 head length circle.
The calf muscles are higher on the outside of each leg than on the inside.
From the center of the knee cap
to the ground is two head-lengths.
The ankle is 1/4 head off the ground.
The foot is one head-length long.
The ankle bones are higher on the inside.

The above information taken from the following website: http://www.realcolorwheel.com/human.htm