Drawing, in the beginning
Hi everyone! Thanks to the wonderful response to my posts over on the Quiltart list, I have set up a new blog— See*Draw*Quilt*Learn (link is also on the left) — for anyone who wishes to join in working on improving their drawing skills. To begin, I’m planning on working through the companion workbook to the New Drawing On the Right Hand Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. If you’d like to participate, and/or if you ‘d like to be a contributor to that blog, surf over there and sign up by contacting me (but please read the first post to find out the general guidelines).
I thought I’d start things rolling by sharing my “pre-instruction” drawings from both the first time I did the workbook, in 2003/4, and the current one. As I mentioned earlier, here, I think I could learn more by doing the exercises again. The picture above is the 2009 drawing of my hand (photos are clickable for a larger view)… I deliberately worked (relatively) quickly, and didn’t do shading. I think when I did my 2003 version, I had read ahead about shading and whatnot…. here is that one:
We were also to do a room/corner. Since we moved, I couldn’t do the same corner. Here is the living room corner in 2003:
and the corner of my studio in 2009:
The piece on the wall, next to the window, is this totally cool (and really challenging to draw) 3-D ish wool “window” by Frances Caple, who lives in the Hebrides. She asked about a trade, and loved my Rites of Passage quilt. I loved her windows, so she made this one special for me, and we swapped! I’ll have to take a picture of my mini “art wall” to share with you… next post tho, want to get this one online.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Wow…that corner exercise is a tough one! I’m going to try it. All those angles and horizontal and NOT horizontals. Yikes.
Good job.