{"id":133,"date":"2007-06-16T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2007-06-16T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T15:34:00","slug":"drawing-i-gestural-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/drawing-i-gestural-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing I — gestural drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Drawing is one very good reason I’m a calligrapher. I mean it. This drawing class is like trying to walk after choosing to sit for decades. I leave every 2-1\/2 hour class meeting simply exhausted. Which seems ridiculous, but how hard can it be to put on paper what you see with your eyes? Pretty hard, evidently.<\/p>\n

Here is the first image of my first efforts in Drawing I. This one was a gestural drawing of an arrangement of really, really random things in the center of the classroom: a partially dismembered skeleton, a red tricycle, various fake flowers, and some Styrofoam balls.<\/p>\n

We were given 1 minute, then 3 minutes, to get as much of the still life down on huge sheets of paper — these sheets were about 24″ x 36″. Then we started on this fresh sheet and were told we had 5 minutes, but after the first 5 minutes we were given another 10 minutes to get in more detail.<\/p>\n

Very stressful for me. I’m hoping this all starts to come a little easier as the semester wears on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drawing is one very good reason I’m a calligrapher. I mean it. This drawing class is like trying to walk after choosing to sit for decades. I leave every 2-1\/2 hour class meeting simply exhausted. Which seems ridiculous, but how hard can it be to put on paper what you see with your eyes? Pretty … <\/p>\n

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