Face It

We're going to begin drawing faces on Thursday. We'll do a couple of exercises to get warmed up and then we'll begin drawing each other. Again, unlearning will directly effect our learning, especially when it comes to drawing the face.

Please bring your black charcoal, conte crayons (black or sepia), white (make sure you have some white!), your newsprint and canson pads, and a kneadable and rubber eraser.

Any guesses as to who did the self-portrait above???

Ok. Here We Go!

First, Kudos to you for Thursday. Those are difficult things to do and they can be draining but the energy you approached them with got me very excited about the rest of the year. Maybe I just have good luck but I feel like I have another incredible class. Some of the drawings from Thursday were really beautiful!



For Tuesday, please bring your newsprint pad, and your Canson Pad. Your black Conte crayon will be really great for what we're going to work on but so will your LYRA graphit stick. I suppose a pencil will be fine as long as it's pretty soft lead, like 6B or one of those Ebony pencils will work really great too. I forgot to tell you to buy two or three black China Markers (wax pencils). Bring those if you have them. If you haven't gotten your materials yet, make sure you get China Martkers too. If you already made the trek to pick stuff up, don't worry about it, but next time you go, pick some up. They're like 89 cents a piece and they make beautiful marks. Might want to bring an eraser too.

(Bring both of these)
Newsprint pad
Canson Pad
(bring some or all of these)...
Conte Crayon (preferably HB)
LYRA Stick
Ebony Pencil
China Markers
Eraser

Make sure you bring your materials. People leaving class to go get materials is very distracting. Let's not do it.
We're going to be working from observation, and from our imagination. See you Tuesday...if it doesn't snow!

Bonus points if you can tell me who made these drawing or who did the photograph of a mentally retarded white tiger below.