1D perspective is so easy but 2D always stumps me. If you use a ruler it looks too perfect and unreal but without one well, there are usually a lot of woops.
Perspective
Month: April 2022
Reductive Drawing
Project description
Here the rubbed on vine charcoal makes a smooth toned bed to work on. When drawing the leaf I paid extra attention to catching the light and was able to use the side and edge of my eraser to show the lyrical edges and veins of this collard leaf. Usually I prefer working to scale but here I enlarged the leaf to better fit the page.
This reductive method of working reminds me of painting using not just brushes but of using a dry or solvent soaked cloth to rub away colors or to change shades and tones. It is also good at making gradual value changes (sfumato) or a dramatic light shade contrast as defined using the word chiaroscuro.
Self Portrait
The masked ink wash portrait felt successful as I used a variety of values and marks. The next unmasked is still ink washed, which I started in class but finished at home. The larger unmasked of conte crayon on grey paper is on display at school. It looks kinda like me but adding so much orange was Trump excessive! It makes me laugh to see it so it’s not posted here. I find self portraits problematic in that usually the shape of head is too big or too small, eyes get over emphasized and hard to make yourself look your current age.
Masked Self Portrait 
Self Portrait
Masked Self Portrait, Ink wash on Bristol paper, 9″ X 12″
Self Portrait, Ink wash on Bristol paper, 12 x 9
Wire Sculptures
These wire figures are a 3D continuation of my joy of visually following a line and drawing it. Yet this time being able to bend that line forward and backward creating what may be thought of as low relief sculptures. I also enjoy how when a light hits them they make surprisingly dynamic shadows. Below the photo of Woman in a Circle shows such a shadowed multi-image.
Jumping Boy, 6″x 5″ 
Dog, Steel Wire, 3″ x 4″
Woman in Circle, 18″ x 18″ 
Looking Up, 15 “X 15”
