Art Show

Today was an exciting day. I had a piece of art that I created featured in an art show. The art show took place at The Drawing Studio, and included art from the Drawing Fundamentals classes. The piece of mine in the show was a still life of desert vegetation done in graphite. In the picture below, it is the one at the top.

The Drawing Studio: Drawing Fundamentals 2, Week 2

This is a series of posts about my second class, Drawing Fundamentals 2, taken at The Drawing Studio, an artist's cooperative here in Tucson. Week by week, I plan to do a log of what we do in class.

For week 2, week experimented with texture. We arrived at class to find a large still life setting in front of us that included some yucca plants, cacti skeletons, and rocks. We all started out by roughing out the outline using graphite powder. We then took our graphite sticks, various erasers, chamois, and other tools to complete the drawing.

Here is the result:

The Drawing Studio: Drawing Fundamentals 2, Week 1

This is a series of posts about my second class, Drawing Fundamentals 2, taken at The Drawing Studio, an artist's cooperative here in Tucson. Week by week, I plan to do a log of what we do in class.

The first week of the class we tried our hand at drawing portraits: the close-up of the face. We split into two groups and took turns posing as others in the class drew us.

Here are the best ones that I did: