Cardinals in the lilacs, adult drawing class art display and exercises, 6/10/19

Cardinals in the lilacs, adult drawing class art display and exercises, 6/10/19

We started with a series of conceptual schematic structural drawings of lilac forms. This meant working with cone shapes in a few views. After we had done simple straight up cones we did some curving cones. These appeared almost as leaf shapes. And they would be good as a way to re-interpret leaves. After doing doing the cones, we tried them using scribbly  strokes to resemble something like the florets moving around the cone shape.

The cardinal practices was a series of four: first the main shapes like eggs or ovals in various positions. We did a scribbly or Wiro/slinky bird form. We did a continuous line drawing, and then just the black line outline drawing like a coloring page.

And finally students worked on making a picture as they wished. They had reference images of cardinals and lilacs to use.