I started this at our class last Wednesday, and then took a few more days to finish it at home.
The focus was tone, and we used this James Casebere photograph as our reference.
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Art classes: week 3
Tag: art
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Struggling beginners
Veteran artists make art that seems so natural, so self-assured and mature that it’s hard for the rest of us to imagine that they too were once struggling beginners.
Ted Orland, The View From the Studio Door
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Trees are your friend
Trees are a wonderful gift of nature and actually do provide a unique type of friendship to those that appreciate how special they are.
Karren Case
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The Kingdom Art Life
Conversations about art and faith can often (understandably) be quite metaphorical and abstract, and sometimes this frustrates me. So, I really appreciate Marlita Hill’s podcast, The Kingdom Art Life, which gives a solid biblical and theological grounding to the discussion, and is highly practical.
Marlita is a great communicator—quiet, clear, insightful, and funny—and, as a professional dancer and mature Christian, she’s lived this stuff out; it’s not theory. Her perspective and message (which is about harmonising faith, art, and a “secular” art career) are quite unique, I think.
Highly recommended.
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Charcoal contour drawings
I’ve had a busy week preparing for a job interview, so I haven’t done any practice of what I learnt in last week’s class up till now.
This didn’t really match what we did on Wednesday—tonight I used a much smaller, simpler subject; A5 rather than A1 paper; and shorter pieces of charcoal—but it was still worthwhile practice.
