Still Life Composition Lesson and More Buttons
This morning in class we talked about the placement of objects on our paper. Not the right or wrong placement of objects, but how they relate to one another spatially. The lower left pencil drawing was just drawing things as they were - no arranging or composing. We just drew what we saw, how we saw it. We were trying to place things up and down the picture plane showing the volume of the objects - that is, making sure they would really fit where we put them.
The top left watercolor is just a very quick, three object still life, sketched only with watercolor - no preliminary drawing. It was a salt shaker, a bottle of ink, and a spool of thread. This exercise was to get the objects in place without fussing at all with any detail.
The buttons are just more buttons. This is the beginning of a new session, and some of the students hadn't had a chance to see the button demo or try it for themselves. These buttons could become habit forming.
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