Painting people! I just gave you a sketchbook assignment but I've already decided on the next so you can start thinking about it...
Find your "SIGNIFICANT OBJECT" and draw it...draw it with importance. This means you should find something that is important to you. It should not be a person (although those are the most important things, right?) or a place. For this drawing it should be an object...something that may not mean anything to anyone else, it may be worthless or priceless...expensive or free... just some thing that means something to you. I'm thinking about my first teddy bear that still sits on my nightstand 38 years later or the doll arm I found in some gravel.
When you draw it really think about how you want to present it. Is it in bright light and reflecting lots of light? Is it hidden in a lots of shadows? Do you draw it sitting on the shelf you keep it on? In your jewelry box? Or does it sit on a pedestal or in your sock drawer? Give us a sense of it's importance with the background, the light (or the lack thereof), how detailed you draw it, how big, how small, etc....
Take your time and really think about it...
“Look
at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine
it from every side. Draw
its outline with your eyes or
in the air with your hands, and
saturate yourself with it.”
DUE THURSDAY MAY 30TH
