Lesson 1: Summary

Lesson 1: Summary

Concepts:

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

Observations:

• Line quality matters. The work I admire has less shakey lines.
• I underestimated the dry time between washes. You can see in the positive shapes sketch that the largest dark window bled into the mid tones.
• I'm still having a hard time judging placement on the page.
• Shadows shifted as I drew and painted. What happened is I painted the shadows as they were at the moment. So, the net result is that the painting records the shadow shifts over time and is not a snapshot of a moment in time.
• I saw and wanted to add more detail, but I resisted the temptation.
• I tried mixing juicer mixes of watercolor. This made things a lot easier because I didn't run out of a color and have to stop and remix more.
• Each sketch took longer than anticipated. The entire exercise took me over two hours to complete.
• I lost track of time and became oblivious to my surroundings including the people around me. A few people walked up behind me to look at what I was doing and surprised me when they made a comment. They were all complimentary by the way.

Questions:

• What do you do while waiting for paint to dry?

To-Do:

☐Try dry media or wet media that dries quicker such as Neocolor II, colored pencil, or markers.

☐Practice lines and curves and angles.

☐Figure out page placement techniques so objects don't go off the page.

☐Practice lettering.