Yesterday afternoon and evening A&S 095 students practiced a variety of techniques for creating the illusion of depth. Here we are drawing gourds and also checking out various points of perspective in the Fleming Museum. For those of you who had trouble with the latter, you are not alone. It was a difficult exercise, and often those vanishing points were not on your drawing but quite distant from it. Thanks for all your efforts. As you keep drawing, the lessons learned last night will inform your future work. As always, I keep trying to get as many folks in the pictures as I can. The light in the Fleming made picture taking a little difficult, so no images of your perspective drawings are shown. I’ll try and get some in later. Good luck on your midterm exams in other classes, and have a good rest of the week. I’ll be grading your quizzes and the first draft of your papers. Keep an eye out for an email next week summarizing next week’s class. And don’t forget to meet at Rm. 123 in the Library at 3:30 for the beginning of that class. Note that the bottom two drawings are done, respectively, in graphite and charcoal.  They both have extended value ranges which helps create the illusion of volume.  While most of you are doing very well at this, attention to ALL the value ranges you see in the subject (this takes some very careful observation and time to reproduce) will enhance the illusion of the forms you are drawing.

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