Sep 25, 2017

Drawing: I learn my lines

Written last night:

Dear Friends,

Today I started a three-session class at the Crocker Museum on making an art journal — it’s really a drawing class, working in a sketchbook.  Here’s what I did today, copying a carved Buddha in the museum and fake flowers that Erin, the teacher, placed on the table. I started the flowers rather two-dimensionally, but the ones on the left are more lively, following Erin’s suggestions to use gestural* lines (I'm learning, I'm learning!)

Love,
k

* gestural, according to Merriam-Webster: of, relating to, or characterized by vigorous application of paint and expressive brushwork  
  • gestural expressionism (think W. de Kooning)





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