Student Work - Lesson 2

For the second session we experimented with freeing up the mark-making and maintaining control of the spacing of the marks. The goal here was to draw the subject without any marks overlapping or over-emphasizing the contours The subject is treated here as a kind of inspiration for the forms of the drawing rather than something to be slavishly copied. For the second drawing students were encouraged to maintain the disciplined mark-making of the first drawing while experimenting with expressive distortions

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For her second drawing Sara did a great job of fragmenting the subject and flattening it out. The drawing holds together well due to her tight control of the negative space between the marks. Within those parameters she was extremely inventive in terms of capturing and elaborating on the shapes and objects provided by the still life. Check out the guitar fretboard!

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Taylor did a great job of capturing the still life as reduced to a series of almost pointilist dashes. In both drawings the objects themselves begin to dissolve into a nearly abstract rhythm of lines on the page.

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Kelsey also did a great job on this assignment. Over the course of these two drawings she really finds her own way of using line expressively.

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Sam's approach was similar to Taylor's. She reduces the subject to a series of widely spaced notational marks. Although the drawing has a fragmentary quality we still sense the character of the objects and sense the overall coherence of the space.