Wednesday's Expressive Drawing Class~Metamorphosis

Today my drawing got likened to one of Freud's self portraits. The model looked much older than the top version of him in red chalk, but a wee bit younger than the bottom charcoal version. I don't think he was very flattered when he saw it;-) I had done the metamorphosis exercise before and wanted to see if I could play with his age instead of turning him into something else. Others drew him as half zebra, Julius Caesar, a blue sillouette with yellow breasts, an angel with a cat angel sitting at his feet, and sitting in his chair along side the ocean to name a few.

The bottom drawing was actually a very close likeness to the model and I was asked if I had taken the portrait course. There is no way I could ever work with coloured pencils this way. The minute details are too great and the paper would be destroyed with the constant changes that would occur in order for the piece to evolve. That's why I need to learn to paint with oil! In the meantime line drawings remain the staple for my work. I am finding a growing dissatisfaction in working this way. It's not loose enough. You can't just try something for the heck of it and then change it if you don't like it. Coloured pencil is so....regimented. You need to know what you will absolutely do before you start laying down the layers. Oh well, next September is another semester. Until then I'll plug away at the coloured pencil portraits.

Here's a challenge to any one interested, or even if you are not please try anyways!!!!

Draw, paint, build or even draw a cartoon if you want, of a nude. (Tastefully done either male or female;-) Email it to sandi@fletcherartstudio.ca  and I'll post it. If you want your name left off I can. I think it would be great fun to see what everyone comes up with. And believe me, if you think you can't draw, you can. I've seen all kinds of bizzare drawings from so called professional artists! Everyone can draw!!!

Expression can be shown through the quickness and thickness or thiness of the lines you've drawn, the position of the model, the mood of the piece etc....


Take a chance! If you don't have a model then just use your imagination. That's what I did for the younger version of my above drawing. The women in the class were impressed;-)

BTW....funny, I just accidentally posted this whole post on the wrong blog.  There would have been a number of children and elderly ladies that would have been very confused!  I'm sure I would have heard AGAIN of how it's a good thing my Granny up in Heaven doesn't have internet access.  I still haven't lived down the last post due to it's foul language.