Drawing 1 - Figure 1

The students of my drawing 1 class, at the Alberta College of Art and Design, had their first opportunity to draw the figure from life in the session. After warm up gestures, followed by a litany of demonstrations describing different ways to approach drawing under the varying time constraints during a figure drawing session, we ended off with the Devin's final pose below.

Waldorf School Art project

I was lucky to be invited to instruct for a few sessions at the Waldorf school near COP. I began with drawing basics, shading, value and tone and had them do realistic self portraits. The students then chose a modern artwork to study and recreate. First they draw a scaled up cartoon o sketch paper. This drawing is to be transferred to a painting support.  They lock in the charcoal transfer with thinned burnt sienna and add in the darker values.

In the next sessions the students learn colour mixing and apply colour overtop their locked in and transferred drawings.

They use a big brush and block in the largest coloured shapes keeping in mind the values.