Pierre Bonnard Le Placard Rouge Doesn't a cupboard make a great ready-made still life? We will draw subjects from the bathroom cupboard this week.
Greetings!
Our Hat Still Lifes last week brought realization that hats involved drawing ellipses again, so we had another chance to practice them. Thanks to all who brought the marvelous array of hats.
Please bring a still life subject from the bathroom for our subject matter this week, Tuesday, February 26
This week's sketching at home prompt:
CHAIRS
was decided on by the group.
There's still time to sketch! Look at the tutorial below on drawing with negative shapes-it may make drawing chairs easier.
Enjoy content below:
Various Ways to Approach
Still Life Drawing
Saul Steinberg's Still Life with Cat,
in ink and some watercolor.
You may recognize his work from covers of
The New Yorker magazine
Vincent Van Gogh 'Still Life with Coffee Pot,' pen & ink.
David Hockney, contemporary English artist "Lilies" still life Note his use of the background to form the white flowers, vase and table.
I suggested last session that this might help in our sketching of chairs. Here is an explanation of drawing using the negative shapes around the subject. This will strengthen your ability to see and draw shapes.
See you at our next
Drawing Together
on Tuesday,
Feb 26, 2013, 10:00 a.m.!
Please join us as we exercise our natural drawing abilities - Bring your at-home sketches to share if you wish. This week's sketch at home theme: Chairs
Bring a SUBJECT FROM THE BATHROOM for this weeks' drawing session.
All materials are provided, through the generosity of the
![Pierre Bonnard The Red Cupboard 19339 [Le Placard Rouge]](http://www.reproduction-gallery.com/oil_painting_reproduction_gallery/Pierre-Bonnard-The-Red-Cupboard-19339-_Le-Placard-Rouge_-large-1065069491.jpg)
