Tuesday was a full day of learning. Sadie's classical training comes through in every aspect of her teaching. I am now a firm believer in beginning my drawings with straight lines instead of the innocuous curved lines. Judging angles and distances are so much easier and the objects have a solidity that is not there otherwise. Yesterday was a short lecture on the nature of organic forms--life and energy. We all use symbolic words to describe organic forms, i.e., arm, finger, hand. In life the following is true. All shapes in nature are tapered, not parallel. Shapes are spiral including arms, tree trunks, bones. All forms interlock with each other and continue through to the other form. And last, and probably the most aha for me, all forms are convex not concave. For example, a waist looks like it goes "in" (concaved) but in reality, a series of curves that push out.
After the lecture, she demonstrated the second layer (closed grisaille) using raw umber, ultramarine blue, and white. Previously the white of the canvas was left white which is an open grisaille. Wednesday we will finish this stage and proceed with color on Thursday. Picture coming on Saturday.
Great post. Look forward to the pictures.
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