I have always loved making things and doing artsy stuff and recently I have been wondering why I didn’t get an art degree in university instead of a Spanish degree. So, to fulfill my desire for (more) art in my life, and not wanting to attend university again, I found the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven.
The first class I am taking is Introduction to Drawing and here are pics of what I have done so far:
This is from the first class where we had to draw a still life using charcoal.
In this class we used conte crayon and had to draw our hands, paying close attention to every small bump and crease in our skin. The teacher said mine looked very Sci-fi.
For this class we had to draw metal chairs stacked upon each other, but we had to draw the negative space, the empty spaces, in order to obtain the images of the chairs. It was so fun I did it twice!
For this class we were studying contrast. We first drew the still life, then we picked a middle value and everything darker than that value had to be colored in black and everything lighter was left white. We even used the shadows on the walls.
In this class we drew a skeleton with a light shining on one side. We used white conte crayon for the light/reflecting areas, red conte crayon for the dark/shadowed areas, and black for the darkest shadows. The paper represented the middle values. This is my favorite one so far.
I have one more lesson remaining in the class. There is a perspective drawing class that is four weeks after this and I am going to take that too!!
Super fun!!!!
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