I'm at Extreme Poses with Angela in the ropes, and today Paul Fowler started us off with two exercises.
Firstly, an approach taken from Giacometti in which we were asked not to remove our pencil from the paper during the ten minute execution of the drawing . This was nothing new to me as I have pursued this approach on many occasions previously and enjoy it.
Then Paul illustrated with a number of Van Gogh drawings how blocks of marks/lines/shading can be used to build up a picture. Again ten minutes. I followed this approach and could not resist adding a few lines to help convey the pose.
Then on to a thirty minute pose. I did not do justice to the length and structure of the torso but the relationship of the head to the legs in the construction of the perspective was basically OK.
Here I attempted a single line drawing. However, I was unhappy with the unsophisticated outcome, so I played with it and added some finer pencil marks and some tonal treatment.
The approach to each of the above drawings was pre-planned and carried out in a self-conscious way. A useful exercise.
But for the last two poses of the morning I felt a real need to be more expressive, yet I am certain that as a result of the earlier 'considered' approaches these two soft pastel drawings were constructed less hurridly than usual and that each mark was more carefully considered.
The technique uses the soft pastel stick on its edge either to make a linear mark or to draw it across the paper.
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