Hi All,
This week your homework is to finish making a careful pencil copy of your Abts/Nozkowski painting. Every square inch of the drawing should be considered. Be sure not to merely sketch in the composition. This should take at least a couple hours.
Use both hard and soft pencils to build up the layers to get a beautifully rich and painterly surface. Don't mash down the tooth of the paper. Instead use a hard pencil in all different directions to fill in the white spaces that the valleys of the tooth of the paper make.
In the end, your drawing should look EXACTLY like a black and white photo of the painting.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Week of 1/4
Hi all,
As you know, your homework this week is to finish the canvas board paintings we started in class: the Tom Nozkowski and Tomma Abts hybrid. Your painting should be perfectly (but asymmetrically) balanced using moves from both Abts's and Nozkowski's arsenal. Most importantly everything square inch of the painting should be considered and finished in the most appropriate way possible.
Do not make decisions based on expediency or efficiency. If it takes twice as long to make a painting that is 5% better, then it's worth the time and effort. Period.
Good luck!
As you know, your homework this week is to finish the canvas board paintings we started in class: the Tom Nozkowski and Tomma Abts hybrid. Your painting should be perfectly (but asymmetrically) balanced using moves from both Abts's and Nozkowski's arsenal. Most importantly everything square inch of the painting should be considered and finished in the most appropriate way possible.
Do not make decisions based on expediency or efficiency. If it takes twice as long to make a painting that is 5% better, then it's worth the time and effort. Period.
Good luck!
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