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Week 3 Sketches, Steven Villa
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Week 4 sketches – Volumetric Drawing
This week in your sketchbook practice building up your gesture drawings with simple volumetric shapes.
- Remember, begin your drawings from the INSIDE and work your way OUT.
- Be sure you DO NOT lose the gesture or FORCE!
- Read FORCE by Mike Matessi so you can use both volumetric drawing and look for lines of FORCE while you draw!
- Remember it’s 8 pages over the next 2 weeks my dears!
Week 1 Self Portraiture through Objects
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- my current favorite read, and pretty much my bible for self growth and improvement
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- My favorite plants, one named after my Great Grandmother, Gran, the orchides are named Canela 🙂
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- My feet because I use them to dance, workout, and take my places when my heart can’t
meet the artist
I usually like to let pictures speak for themselves but since we’re introducing ourselves, i’d like to give a brief interpretation. I’m 24 years old and i’m sure i speak for many of u when i say im feeling more lost, with each passing day :). Going through the motions but not really doing what I want to or knowing what to do… not really knowing how life works but that is ok because if we had life all figured out we’d be very unsatisfied and bored :). Nobody really knows whats going on and that’s great because it is beautiful mystery. In this sketch, I originally planned to do something fancy, color inside the lines, make it aesthetically pleasing. But instead i chose to embrace my mood and express exactly what im feeling at this very moment to my best ability without trying to hold back but at the same time make the text llegible for you. This sketch has become one of my favorites already just for the simple fact that it not only shows how messy, lost and moody i feel but it is also a beautiful mess and it’s free. a balance of imbalances. a lot of times i was just letting my charcoal move on the paper without thinking about what exactly i was gonna draw & it felt really liberating. Its Free of wanting to impress others with my drawing skills, free of shading inside every lines, free of rules, not everything in it makes sense because it doesn’t have to. P.S. the mermaid sleeping at the bottom is me. I’m a mermaid. Thank you.
Egon Schiele Research by Sophia
Egon Schiele is one of my favorite artists. I first saw his artwork on a book cover. It was the Self Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant, 1912. His line work first caught my eyes, because of the emotions and powers that I felt in his works. It seems so fragile, but yet so powerful. Schiele is well known for creating a great number of self-portrait. Most of his early self-portraits, such as Self Portrait with Hands on Chest (1910) and Self Portrait with Arm Twisting above Head (1910), did not have a background but they still manage to be powerful and attractive. The usage of limited color shades, exaggerated body parts, and surrounding aura harmonizes very well in his paintings.
He was one of the most famous expressionist painters of the early 20th century. Gustav Klimt, his mentor and also the most famous painter, heavily influenced Egon Schiele. Some of their paintings are very alike in color, pattern, or model poses. In my opinion, Klimt’s works have more of a mature and soothing feelings while Schiele’s works have a deeper emotion, more dramatic, very rough and solitude.
My favorite piece of Egon Schiele is Tote Mädchen, 1910. Although the person in the drawing is not well balanced, it looks good in my eyes. It is extraordinary but very soothing. I love the color being used in the painting. Tote mädchen actually means ‘dead girl’ in German. It changes my ideas and feelings for the painting after knowing its name.
Egon Schiele’s paintings represent his youth, sufferings, and so many other emotions. He put his everything into the painting all his ‘short’ life, which is why his paintings are highly praised by the people. Although his parents were against him, he walked his way with passion, and desire. Egon Shiele is a person with so much talent, passion, desire, and emotion.
Egon Sheile *Extra Credit*
In his twenty-eight years on earth, Egon Schiele produced some of the most radical depictions of the human figure in modern times. Through his highly expressive, utterly uncompromising portraiture, he shoved away the parameters of self-expression, procreation, sexuality, eroticism and mortality – prevalent concerns in the socially and psychologically charged atmosphere of pre-war Vienna – in a breathtakingly original manner.
excerpt from Five Things You Might Not Know About Egon Schiele by Daisy Woodward
* As an extra credit assignment to be tabulated into your FINAL GRADE:
Research Egon Scheile. You can begin with the links above. Learn about his life, as well as the time period he lived in. Then, write a well crafted (hint use a grammar and spell check!) approximately 250- 300 word response. Include details like why he was one of the leading figures in Expressionism, what kind of work he as known for and its importance, ass well as person detail you find interesting. Also include a piece of his art that particularly interested you.
POST your response and tag it DISCUSSION
*DUE in 2 weeks
Week 2 Reading Discussion
One of the concepts that Bridgeman discusses is balance (p.33). Balance in the drawing is like Pendulum, that moves back and forth but always comes back in the center. When drawing a human body, I often forget that, whether the pose is bent or twisted, there has to be ‘ gravity’ that balances the human body. I think it also shows the weight of the body. After reading this, i realized the importance of feet. I think feet show the most of the body’s balance and weight.
