The weather is being very uncooperative and we're stuck inside extending our two week still life exploration into a third week. It's a good thing, though, since a still life drawing can function on may levels and have many purposes. Working in color on the current one will help us understand how color acts in real life, how light moves around the space an forms, lending and barrowing colors throughout. Still lifes can teach us how an arrangement of colors and values can bring a special mood to the drawing. In the case of black and white drawings, used by the majority of us in the last still life, the purpose is different. A still life pencil or charcoal drawing can help us study shapes more closely and see how they interact on our eyes, we learn how to measure correct proportions, and we pay more attention to the details because we're not making the same kinds of decisions as we do with color. In either case, though, how we see the subject and respond to our media can make the difference between a good drawing and a remarkable drawing.
Still lifes are the most available subjects in the world, and while some people may consider still life drawing boring, the fact is they teach us a lot. When you have no idea of what to draw in your journals, just make an arrangement of things you have at home and start drawing. If you keep practicing on drawing still life subjects you will find out that you have a much better understanding on how light works, and how objects relate to each other within a particular space and within a composition.
Below are a few points of view of our current creative problem.
I have been waiting on this update all week... :) This has been a very awesome still life. Its got energy, lots of color and a strong narrative. I am glad that color was being used for this class project. I found that this still life was challenging based on its complexity and color relationship. I just love how each color has another color that is being reflected on to it and its surrounding friends. I would say that this is a narrative landscape and it should count for one of our landscape pieces.
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