Pages from my sketchbook today. The lesson: blind contours. It was difficult resisting the urge to look at what I was drawing, but I am glad I didn’t. These spontaneous looking squiggles look like something that came out of the fourth dimension (not time, but the one perpendicular to the third dimension). We talked about line quality and the next assignment is to draw something from nature.

The critique of the negative space project ran smoothly. Some presented compositions with the hard edges of a chair silhouette abstracted by close cropping while others submitted shapes of potted plants on stools or shelves. A student commented that she liked the constrast of the hard crispe lines of negative space, the austere constrast of the white and black in comparison to the organic lines of the plant-shapes. And another really appreciated the geometric qualities of the stools and table legs, how their interstices implied a personality. That’s the nice thing about the class. Everyone has their own preferences and things that just really get them.