Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Category: Drawing
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The assignment: Create a white still-life and using only shading techniques, (think of lines that you do make as edges) and use any material you like, though charcoal is quite handy.
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Long past couple of days… not enough sleep, I suppose. Yesterday, I drew paper, crumpled paper. It was to get some practice looking at abstract shadows, making no assumptions on how it’s supposed to look. Exercises in seeing. One drawing was created using a paper stump dipped in charcoal dust and another was done when…
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I’m bleary-eyed from staring at a piece of paper for an hour. The time flew as I listened to KEXP and put my nib to the paper. That’s right, nib. It’s the metal part that costs a buck fifty at your local art store. It’s beautiful. The lines made by the India ink are so…
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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…
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Today I took this still life… And completed the negative space assignment. Claire (the drawing teacher) said that if the shapes don’t line up perfectly, it showed that the student did the assignment by drawing the shapes in between and not the objects themselves. Well, I did this assignment extra right then because you can’t…
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How to make Artistic Poop: Lessons from Failure. (1) buy the cheapest –and yet, due to their cute name (black cat), they make it into the shopping cart– ink. (2) Use the clumsiest crayola brush (3) Enjoy a tiny view finder which frames your picture-in-the-making so delicately, that the tiniest of sways from your non-drawing hand makes…
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The picture plane is the surface in space where your picture is waiting for your wits to grow sharper. Today, I sketched this in drawing class. It’s Queen Anne. The neighborhood has always let my eyes rest on it. It is truly cute and cozy-looking they way they are all nestled onto that hill. In…
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Inspired by Mike O’s angles on his painting, I drew these “Space People”– reference to Dali’s Space Elephants.
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