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Sep. 26th, 2019 12:00 am
Sep. 26th, 2019
The Contingent Stones
Sep. 26th, 2019 02:39 pmI did not do any homework for brush-painting class this week, as I was frantically trying to finish a papercut for the Fall Fair instead.
Every painting in the Mountain Style (the style I am studying) features rocks. So it's important to be able to make a lot of different kinds of rocks - jagged rocks, swirly wind-carved rocks, slippery moss rocks - so you're not just putting the Same Three Rocks into every painting.
The instructor was still in a rock-teaching mood, but took the exact opposite approach this week. Instead of teaching the formal artistic conventions around creating rocks - brush strokes layout - she had us make random ink marks on the paper. Then she had us look at our ink marks and try to see in them the planes and facets of stones, as an exercise in understanding rocks as 3-dimensional objects. Then we were to add ink to highlight and bring forward the rocks that were already there on the page.
( rocks )
Every painting in the Mountain Style (the style I am studying) features rocks. So it's important to be able to make a lot of different kinds of rocks - jagged rocks, swirly wind-carved rocks, slippery moss rocks - so you're not just putting the Same Three Rocks into every painting.
The instructor was still in a rock-teaching mood, but took the exact opposite approach this week. Instead of teaching the formal artistic conventions around creating rocks - brush strokes layout - she had us make random ink marks on the paper. Then she had us look at our ink marks and try to see in them the planes and facets of stones, as an exercise in understanding rocks as 3-dimensional objects. Then we were to add ink to highlight and bring forward the rocks that were already there on the page.
( rocks )