Week Three: recession using line and understanding tone through contrast

We changed the programme order slightly tonight to build on the first two weeks skills development. Tonight we looked firstly at varied line weight to show recession (depth). Then we look at contrast to understand tone (modulated light and dark). An excellent workout with great observation and sensitivity in use of line and tone.

Line - recession (Artists to look at - David Hockney (early years), Pablo Picasso (early years), Alasdair Gray, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres):

Andy

Dorothy

Ella

Graeme

Helen

Jeff

Neil

Rebecca

Yvonne

Tone - contrast (artists/drawings to look at - Georges Seurat, Francesca Goya, Elaine Green):

Amie

Dorothy

Ella

Helen

Jeff

Neil

Rebecca

Yvonne

Yvonne

Week 2: Shape, Form, Seeing through Drawing

Week One we experimented with the Gestalt approach to seeing and drawing. Black charcoal using finger techniques produced some well observed studies of the human figure.  There are four examples below.

Week Two saw us developing our seeing through drawing skills further using mono line and a bounding box technique. See below the very well observed and skillful still life studies. And they look great too!

Note how the use of a single weight line throughout emphasises a flat two-dimensional appearance. This also increases the strength of the design aspect of the drawings without the distractions of tone / shaded areas.

AH

AH

DB

EW

EH

GH

GH

HP

JC

ND

RC

RC

YM

Welcome to Term 3 - and it's a belter over 11 weeks!

Here is our visual plan for the new term which starts on 19th April and ends on 5th July. There is no class during half term i.e. 31 May. If you can't enlarge the plan image above the just click on the image below and it should become larger. Or Right click your mouse / hold your finger on the image on a tablet to save image to your device.