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Still Life with Orange Halves, 1957

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Paul Cezanne. The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

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“I sometimes make
changes to the subject,
but still I don’t invent
the whole of the
painting...I find it ready-
made—but to be
untangled—in the real world.”
Vincent van Gogh

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All sorts of simple methods and tricks to mark something onto paper (or other surface).

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Experimentation and materials are important.

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Experimentation and materials are important.

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Materials: Use ink with a brush, Sticks, Sponge, find utensils on your kitchen.

Get familiar with marks and materials.

How they behave?

What kind of marks do they do?

Which one you like better?

How it makes you feel when you use it?

What kind of materials you would like to try? (be creative).

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Varying the pressure you apply while drawing with charcoal or graphite creates different effects.

Variety of hand pressure to have values.

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1.- Drawing from memory

2.- drawing from perception

3.- Upside down: brain mode of drawing

drawing shapes, lines. space, relationships etc..

The visual zone Versus the verbal zone of our brain.

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To watch carefully especially with attention to details to be able to interpreting.

Drawing as an experience.

If you Learn to observe you can draw whatever you have in front of you.

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Canadian artists. (1984-2019). Matthew Wong - Wikipedia

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when you use marks think on represent:

Line: describe shape of things.

Tone: light or dark of an object.

Texture: surface quality of an object

You can represent a sense of space where things are front and back.

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1.- Pressure Control: from light to dark

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Where 2 things come together.

Where a shape or area begins or ends.

Contour line is a shared edge.

Transitions of the edges: Hard (They are loud, they want to be seeing) and soft edges (They are shy, they want to disappear). Lost: totally disappear.

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exercise 1: Blind Contour Drawing; another exercise to train the Visual zone of your brain.

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exercise 1: Blind Contour Drawing; another exercise to train the Visual zone of your brain.

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Will help you to join eye with brain.

help your observational skills.

steps:

1.- look yourself on a mirror or camera on your phone.

2.- Fix your eye on one contour or outline of the image.

3.- Track the edge of the object with your eyes.

4.- Simultaneously draw the contour very slowly and continue line on your page without lifting the pencil or looking the page.

5.-Have your eye on the paper all the time until you find another line how intersect.

Note:

This exercise should be done slowly, searchingly sensitively.

do not worry about proportions or being realistic

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Remember how you draw when you were a kid.

1.- Draw from memory a drawing you used to make when you were a kid. what is the subject? a landscape? people? a house? Draw the way you draw it at a young age. What do you remember?

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There are not rules to explore with marks

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There are not rules to explore with marks

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it can be loose and expressive or controlled and neat. The results depend on your choice of media, tools and techniques.

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Concept: drawing from the general to the specific.

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Concept: drawing from the general to the specific.

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Do not start drawing the detail until you have the main structure or form.

To have the main structure, you have to learn:

negative - positive space.

composition

Relationships on space.

measurements

perspective etc..

After you define that on you paper you can add details:

shadings, textures etc...

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Draw your Hand .. use your hand as a model

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negative space: will help you to draw difficult areas of the object you are observing.

help with composition

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a contemporary artist

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Negative and positive works together

Positive forms share edges with negative space.

Positive and negative space have the same importance in a composition.

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The boundaries or transitions between different areas in a drawing.

The visual separation of forms and spaces.

Where 2 forms touches.

Why to draw them?

to Crete an effect of depth: bring a shape or object forward or backward.

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Upside down drawing. Letter size 8.5 x 11 iches

Too truly see things as they are, rather than how we assume they should look.

Draw as you go

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Shadow shapes _upside down.

1.- make your paper a square size.

2.- with a charcoal in a flat position fill all the paper with a gray middle tone.

3.- use the upside-down figure and identify the whites' shapes on the paper. Use the eraser to make those white shapes.

4.- Identify the dark shapes and draw them with the charcoal.

be aware to leave the middle tones.

5.-Continue observing the upside drawing and make other observational marks.

Note: observe shapes of dark and light.

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Angles and Proportions will help you to find relationships

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Angles and Proportions will help you to find relationships

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Think of the drawing like pieces of a puzzle where positive and negative shapes fit together in relationships to the proportion of the page.

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Think of the drawing like pieces of a puzzle where positive and negative shapes fit together in relationships to the proportion of the page.

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Hard Edges: These are sharp, crisp transitions between two shapes or objects. Hard edges can direct attention to specific areas and can help to show distance between what is in front and what is behind.

Soft Edges: a soft or gradual transition between shapes or objects. ex. transition of values.

Lost Edges: The transition is lost. The edges is not fully defined and it seem to blend into the surroundings.

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11x8.5 letter size ......(if you want to go bigger use a 17x14)

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Exercise 1 . using marks to represent Tone example

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Exercise 1 . using marks to represent Tone example

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Exercise 1: Angles to understand perspective

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Exercise 1: Angles to understand perspective

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1.-Angles: in relation to Horizontal and vertical of the page.

The pencil helping you to measure.

10 minutes practice to find angles

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1.- Paper size : 8.5 x 11 inches (letter size).

2.- define half of the page horizontal and vertical. draw a very soft line.

3.- Don’t draw the chair, instead, draw the easy parts, the negative spaces.

4.- Fill in the black shapes until the end of the page.

Keep the proportions of the page on your drawing.

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The use of hard or bold edges gives a more flat effect.

Matt Sesow: https://www.injectionmag.com/post/bold-lines-and-bright-colors-matt-sesow-paints-with-heart-soul

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Use of light and shadows to achieve depth and 3 dimensionality.

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The Starting shape or line: The Size of the first shape controls the subsequent size of everything in the drawing because you will draw everything in relationship to that shape.

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A composition is the way to arrange positive shapes with the negative space on a format.

The interplay between these two elements creates tension, directs the viewer’s eye, and contributes to the overall balance and definition of the artwork.

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The use of soft edges gives more Atmospheric drawings or paintings.

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Georg Baselitz: "I was born into a destroyed order, a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society.

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Georg Baselitz: "I was born into a destroyed order, a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society.

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German painter. (Born 1938). Georg Baselitz - Wikipedia

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1.- Draw lines around the paper with and HB pencil. Do not press the pencil so much to have very ligh lines. (HB - 2h- 4h pencil: hard).

2.-with 4b or 6B pencil start filling in each shape until you find another edge. when you encounter one edge change mark.

3.- If one shape was filled with very dense marks think on filling the next shape with more white in between maks to have a less dense surface. etc...

4. close attention on edges and how to make them have contrast between them. Think about density of the marks on each edge.

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The light behave depending on the form of the object.

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Proportions/ from the general to the specific

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Proportions/ from the general to the specific

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2.-Proportion: In relation to a starting mark or basic unit

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do it yourself or buy one.

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exercise 2 : looking edges in still life (Charcoal)

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exercise 2 : looking edges in still life (Charcoal)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ensor

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Continue practicing the upside-down drawing from a picture you have, a painter you like or take another of the option we have for the class.

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transcribe this drawing to explore marks.

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Draw an apple or round object with light, shadows and mid tones. Don't forget to draw the space. If you want to challenge yourself chose more than one objects or even more challenging choose a coat or a fabric to draw light and shadows.

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space

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Still life relationships

Build a still life with different objects and look for relationships between them and the space. make sure there are some deep spaces not just a white wall.

use loose lines.

Feel the space and use marks for the space if you want it.

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exercise 2_ Draw your own negative space

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exercise 2_ Draw your own negative space

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1.-Arrange your objects on the space.

2.-Decide the composition with relationship to the vertical of the page.

3.-draw negative spaces.

4.- Do not forget to be considering the edge of the pages to draw.

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Guide the Eye:

create a direction for the eye to follow, preventing it from getting lost in the details of the drawing.

Create Depth:

suggest a sense of depth and distance using perspective and paying attention to line quality

Enhance Composition:

balance and guide our visual attention throughout the rectangle

Narrative

the pathway (by direction or change in direction) - our choices - can add both pictorial, and illustrative narrative.

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Teacher: Carolina Brunet

brunet@carolinabrunet.com

Class Length: 8 Weeks

Class Days: Wednesdays, beginning April 16

Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST

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select one of these objects to practice shading and Tone:

1.- A paper bag

2.-A scramble paper

3.- A fabric

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1.-Select a space with angles on your physical place.

2.-Start drawing the perspective with the horizontal and verticals.

3.-draw from the general to the specific.

use loose lines.