Lesson 1: Overview

Lesson 1: Overview

During the first week we reviewed and practiced three ways of visual thinking.

1. Feeling Edges
2. Abstracting Shapes
3. Constructing Volumes

Indoor Exercises:

First we did a bit of line practice - making strong lines, parallel lines, long straight lines, dividing lines, angles, drawing squares, converging lines, and a few patterns.

Then we did a series of drawings of boxes (from a photo reference) using blind contour, continuous line drawing, abstracting shapes, and constructing volumes.

Finally we did another series of drawings from a photo reference of Manly Church. We did continuous line, negative space, positive space, and constructing volumes.

Outdoor Exercises:

The assignment was to sketch a church on location using all the methods we used indoors - continuous line, negative space, positive space, and constructing volumes. I sketched St. Mary's church in Mt. Angel, Oregon.

Jim