Beginning Painting and Drawing Week 6

Group critique Color with Meaning

Avigail Najjar

Nargees Jumahan

Zebedee Reichert

Forrest Humphrey

                 Homework: Watch John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, part 4

                 On Antioch campus or in town, sketch a minimum of seven

                 passersby in your sketchbook.

                                    

Discuss Ways of Seeing, part 4

Exercise Five: Seeing Others and Ourselves

One cannot look at another human being without seeing both the other and traces of the self. When we observe the human body, our imagination and associations take us deeper into subjectivity than perhaps observing any other thing. We see a hand and we imagine what hands do and what they fit. We imagine the buildings of civilizations and the marvels of human ingenuity. We see legs and think of motion and gait. We look “at” eyes and imagine that we are looking “into” eyes. We see android, cyborg, eroticism, innocence, soulfulness, frailty, fortitude, and so on. For our exercises in depicting the human figure, let’s embrace our subjective seeing of the subject human.

Exercise Five, Part One: The Loaded Gesture

Students will create several three-minute gestural drawings from a live model with both dry and wet media. After careful consideration, this part of the exercise is cancelled, in order that we may continue our focus on spatial relationships, geometric form, perspective, and color. 

Homework: In your Sketchbook, Create a drawing of a person or thing

                 from a dream or poem.