Friday, August 1, 2008

Summer Slump


The Arf Arf Days of summer are in full swing. Note to Tourists: Stopping at the top of a moving escalator on Metro is generally not practical. You could get trampled!

Q: How many days until the beginning of hockey season?
A: 70 days and 1,686 hours.
Addendum: [sigh]

My Figure Drawing Class is going well, despite my sloth. I really enjoy drawing 'from the figure' and may sign up for open figure drawing sessions. Someday.

My experiments with pastels are going very slowly. The noteworthy mess that the whole enterprise makes is daunting. Despite that, I have a plan predicated on my friend Samter Petuel's stellar+inspirational example: a Pear A Day, with these variations:
  • different color schemes (analogous, complimentary, split complimentary, complimentary with the "discord"
  • different lighting effects, different directions
  • different points of view, such as straight on and from above
  • different kinds of strokes - cross-hatched, scribbled circles. layers, layers with intervening fixative
  • different surfaces
  • different colored surfaces
  • different kinds of pastels, hard, soft, pencils
The theory and framework are there. Where is the get-up-and-go? We'll see.

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