Monday, April 19 Figures at ArtServe

Monday's model is Noel

She holds incredible poses with the most intense concentration

I have sent you a link from www.yousendit.com

This is a scanned article about finding the basic cube shapes of the head, ribcage and pelvis in a live model. I did a demonstration of this in class last monday. This article gives great graphic descriptions of this idea.

I will bring the ink we used to experiment in last thursday's class.

The looseness you gain from working with ink helps with the gestural marks in figure drawing.

Also, check out this link. Studio Incamminati is in Philadelphia. There is a great article about tonal drawing. I will bring it to class.

Suggested materials:

WC paper

newsprint and charcoal

Any ink you might have.

http://www.studioincamminati.org/gallery_charcoal.php

See you tomorrow!

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