week 15
4/22/2021
prompt 22:
Make marks that are inspired by foliage drawing with confident free-flowing lines.
inspo:
Henri Mattisse, Self Portrait, ink on paper, 1900
week 14
4/13/2021
prompt 16:
Cut pictures of different textures/images from magazines. Collage them together to form an image. Add lines and values to enhance your work.
inspo:
James Rosenquist, Fast Feast, 1977, lithograph
week 13
4/8/2021
prompt 25:
Start to doodle and using your imagination allow it to grow.
inspo:
-my imagination
week 12
3/30/2021
prompt 24:
Draw from your own autobiography and memory.
inspo:
-my friend, Simon, playing guitar on a nice summer night.
week 11
3/24/2021
prompt 26:
Draw a panorama of your choosing – here is a website on Panoramas from the British Library.
inspo:
PANORAMIC VIEW of that part of Ratisbon west of the cathedral, painted in water-colors by G. Scharf, sen.; 1845. Paper; 6 ft. 1/2 in. X 1 ft.
week 10
3/18/2021
prompt 25:
Start to doodle and using your imagination allow it to grow.
inspo:
Jack Kerouac, a painting made with house paint and glue.
week 9
3/8/2021
prompt 27:
Make various marks and use different styles of drawing in one work.
inspo:
Ellen Gallagher’s Morphia, 2012
week 8
3/2/2021
prompt 20:
Choose objects that have obvious light and dark areas. Render the values that you see.
Think of this film still as a value chart that is now an image:
inspo:
week 7
2/22/2021
prompt 17:
Choose a number of interior and exterior views. Create a series of loose thumbnail studies of these views, using a variety of differently shaped formats.
inspo:
David Hockney, “Garden With Blue Terrace,” 2015.
week 6
2/18/2021
prompt 7:
Choose a subject that can be used to create a symmetrical drawing. Draw it in a sketchbook. Change your point of view and draw the same subject as an asymmetrical composition.
inspo:
Hilma af Klint, Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 2, Childhood (Grupp IV, De tio största, nr 2, Barnaåldern), 1907.
week 5
2/8/2021
prompt 13:
Change the Texture of a sketchbook’s paper by collaging papers onto the page. Draw on top of the collage with mixed media.
inspo:
Jean Dubuffet, Leaves with Bird, 1953
week 4
2/2/2021
prompt 3:
Create a landscape using cross-contour lines. Imbue your lines with some type of emotion, for example, calmness or anger.
updated:
inspo:
Louise Bourgeois, The Tapestry of My Childhood—Mountains in Aubusson, 1947
week 3
1/29/2021
prompt 5:
Watch a movie on a computer or television. Pause the movie at a scene that you find visually interesting. Draw the scene in your sketchbook. Pay special attention to the position of people and objects within the scene.
inspo:
movie scene from Call Me By Your Name:
Eric White’s The End:
week 2
1/24/2021
prompt 9 :
Choose an object that has many negative shapes. In a sketchbook, draw only the negative shapes, taking care to locate them correctly in relation to each other.
inspo :
Kara Walker, Untitled, 1996
week 1
1/17/2021
prompt 8 :
Quickly sketch an object in your sketchbook with a light pencil. Go back over the sketch with a darker pencil, this time slowly and accurately. Following Leonard’s example, be open to adjustments and corrections.
inspo:
Image of female hands by Leonardo da Vinci was made around 1474
