The topic of the week is “quick sketches” and Glenn starts his video (of teaching and demonstrating – an hour plus, worth looking at several times) by asking: what is quick sketching? Being the idiot I am, upon hearing that … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Have you ever had that sensation that you can’t draw anymore, that all your efforts make you draw worse than before, that you are shmidt (politically correct word, borrowed from an episode of Boston legal: Schmidt Happens) that your art … Continue reading
Black and white, dark and light…. even if the world is made of shades of grey, both physically and philosophically, light and dark are keys to giving depth to a drawing, we saw that last week already, and this week … Continue reading
Foreground, middle ground, background, mean depth in a picture, it’s the very magic of drawing: a flat piece of paper looking like it’s got depth! Making that guy look like he is further away that this guy in the drawing, … Continue reading
Thumbnails – small rough images used to test a composition…. in short, the making of the painting is done at this stage, the rest is almost painting by numbers! Glenn told us of one of his students who got a … Continue reading