this is what we did tonight in class, and i think the process was really fun, i want to try it again sometime. first we listened to music and painted with watercolors, just thinking about color, shape, and the mood/energy of the music. this was to instrumental violin and other stuff, not classical, but classical-ish instruments. i had fun making the paint drip. ha.
then our teacher put up a slide of this weird guy who was holding up an animal skull thing with horns, as if it were a mask, and behind him there was another man in a dark blue plaid shirt leaning on a station wagon, which had the trunk open. so we drew from that slide, but all the lights were off, so we couldn't really see our papers, and so i mainly just did semi-blind contour. then she changed slides, but we kept drawing on the same paper. this one had two parked cars on a road/side of the road, and it was snowy, and one man was standing between them, and then the car on the right had it's side door open, and you could just see someones feet, like they were getting out of the car or something. this one also had a treeline off in the distance.
after a while, the lights were turned back on, and then we just changed things how ever we wanted, but sort of with the goal of clarifying the image. i'd drawn with charcoal so i made some area darker, like the shadow, and just started deciding what areas needed chalk or ink wash. in the top right corner is a section from a magazine, i'm not sure i'll use it, i just tacked it down to see what it would look like. the magazine seems really shiney compaired to everything else.
anyways, this project was really interesting to make, and it would be fun to try it again on my own, with different music and old family slides (we have a couple hundred from my grandparents...) i love blind contour drawing because it has a freeness to it. and you can see in the drawings where definite decisions were made (like to change direction in a line, or something) but yet it has this distortedness to it. i love the right hand of the skull guy.
this drawing is so different from anything else i've ever made, but i really like it. also for some reason it makes me think of my friend mick, or art he would make, so i'll have to show it to him and see if he likes it. this picture is due next tuesday, so i'll work on it a little more, but i think for the most part i like it. yay! drawing can be fun sometimes. i have so much homework for this class in these last few weeks though.
