Just a Relationship

Here's what I learned this week:

• Faces don't have edges, so don't draw them that way.
• Use 3-4 values to create recessional curvature, and eliminate edges
• The reason this technique has us sketch then paint is so we can work out the problems ahead of time with a more malleable medium. 
• If your surrounding values don't look right, then whatever you're trying to depict won't look right.

 

I've been trying to come up with something different, or cool, or exciting to tell you guys. But my relationship with art right now is kind of like that point in a human relationship where you've been dating for a while and you can just sit and do your own thing and not talk. It's comfortable, and yeah you guys do cool and exciting stuff sometimes, but really the two of you have adopted a daily pattern and that's okay. 

I work on this piece when I can, but right now it's mostly on Sundays. It started snowing this week, and my little corner is right by two windows so I'll usually have a cardigan on. I'll pop open a San Pellegrino or a Fentimans and pretend I'm European. By the end of a session I'll have graphite all over my hands and sometimes on my face.

It's a simple relationship. 

Love \\ Christelle