Sketchbook

Sketchbook Prompt #10 – Week 14

Prompt: Blacken a page of your sketchbook with charcoal or graphite. Use an eraser to draw a subject. Focus on creating an illusion of form.See Frank Auerbach’s drawings

Inspiration:

Frank Auerbach
Head of E.O.W. 1959–60
Tate

My Sketch:

Sketchbook Prompt #6 – Week 13

Prompt: Following in the style of Beatrix Potter, choose a natural object and draw it multiple times in your sketchbook. See Beatrix Potter, sketches for children’s illustrations.  

Inspiration:

Studies of sheep and horses
Beatrix Potter
16 September 1904

My Sketches:

Study of Birds

Sketchbook Prompt # 7 – Week 11

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. See Leonardo Da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c1480-1490and Hilma Af Klint 

Inspiration: 

Hilma Af Klint 

Sketches:

Symmetrical View 

Asymmetrical View

Sketchbook Prompt #22 – Week 10

Prompt: 22. Make marks that are inspired by foliage drawing with confident free flowing lines. Look at the work of Henri Matisse. 
Inspiration:

DECORATIVE PANEL WITH MAGNOLIA MOTIF charcoal on paper 91.4 68.7 cm. Private Collection 1945

Sketches:


Sketchbook #9 – Week 9

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 relationship to each other. See Kara Walker, Untitled, 1996. Ink, paper, and graphite on paper, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Pablo Picasso 

Inspiration:

Kara Walker, Untitled

Sketch:

Sketchbook Prompt #8 – Week 8

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. See Leonardo da Vinci, The Burlington House Cartoon, c. 149901500and his sketch of female hands, c1474

Inspiration:

Leonardo Da Vinci sketch of female hands 

Sketch of scissors

Sketchbook Prompt #3 – Week 7

Prompt: 3. Create a landscape using cross-contour lines. Imbue your lines with some type of emotion, for example, calmness or anger. See Louise Bourgeois, The Tapestry of My Childhood—Mountains in Aubusson, 1947: 

Inspiration:

La tapisserie de mon enfance—montains in Aubusson (The Tapestry of My Childhood—Mountains in Aubusson), 1947 

Sketch:

Spring Landscape 

The emotion I tried to instill was excitement and joy.

Sketchbook Prompt #5 – Week 6

Prompt: Watch a movie on a computer or television. Pause the move 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. 

Inspiration:  Dawn Clements

Mrs. Jessica Drummond’s Bedroom (My Reputation, 1946), 2010

Scene:

Scene from The Queen’s Gambit

Sketch: