Yay! I started the Professional Program at Studio Incamminati. I will try to document class notes as well as post pictures.
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays (Figure drawing)
1 minute gesture drawings
Materials: Strathmore charcoal paper in moonstone toned with soft vine charcoal, viva paper towel for wipeouts
Objectives:
- Keep movement and energy in the gesture
- Work through the whole arm
- Simplify at first with 3 or 4 bold strokes that describe the major movements of the figure from top to bottom
- Build by finding smaller angle relationships and landmarks of the body (shoulders, chest, hips, groin).
Tips: Keep easel upright, place paper with eyeline about 2/3 of the way up to capture better perspective. Use longer pieces of charcoal or a charcoal holder. Ask yourself, “Where’s the top and bottom? What’s the basic bend of the figure? What’s the dominant thrust/action line? Am I squinting to see the pose’s simplest essence? Am I keeping energy and movement in my arm?”
Instructor examples (Natalie Italiano):
My work:
Wednesdays (Still life)
Objectives:
- Learning to “abstract” from nature
- Remove or separate
- Consider apart from application
- Summarize
- Draw using only straight lines and angles
- Block in shapes of light and dark
- Wipe out lights
- Relate proportions
Hierarchy of wipe-out tools
1. paper towel
2. t-shirt cloth
3. chamois
4. kneaded eraser
Start with simple objects: ball, boxes, vase
Class samples:
My work:
Fridays (Bargue drawing)
Materials: 2B or 4B graphite, sketch paper, eraser, copies of Bargue exercises
Objectives:
- To learn how to “lock in” a drawing
- Precision in lines, angles, distances, proportional relationships
Tips: “Drawing is a series of corrections. Analyze, identify what is the most off, and correct that. Continually move around the drawing, circle around and relate each part to the whole. Ask yourself, ‘Is the drawing ready for new information or do I just need to take what I already have and make it better?’”
My work:
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