Tuesday Tips and Tricks: Often in urban sketching we focus on the architecture or landmarks we encounter to tell the story of our surroundings. There are times though, when we add people to the scene, even when they’re not the focus. They add an element that can make it easier for the viewer to connect with our visual story. People give scale, energy, life, and an invitation into the scene. When you need or want an extra spark in your landscape or cityscape including people can be the trick you need. In this post I give you tips for using watercolor to add figures to your work. Carrots and Rectangles There are many approaches for quickly adding figures to watercolors. I use a combination of two different methods – carrots and rectangles. Both ways employ similar mind sets. Think simple. Think shape Think gesture The Carrot: 1. Start with simple carrot shape 2. Add a head 3. Add a little gesture and shadow The result from just four strokes, a simple basic figure! Repeat the process and add a little embellishment. Now try playing with just slight changes to the gesture and size of the carrot shapes. Add more, create a crowd or a parade! The Rectangle: 1. Paint a rectangle 2. Add two strokes for legs 3. Two strokes for arms 4. One for a head Tah Dah! A person! Urban Sketching Saturday Morning at the Green City Market, Chicago Using these simple methods as a starting point you can add the attitude, personality, the character of a place, through it's people. Character Builders: Paint a group of carrots and rectangles together. Let a few overlap and let the paint mingle. What happens when the head stroke touches the shoulder line? When it doesn’t? Experiment, add line to emphasize or embellish some of the shapes. Try adding just a little detail. As always, have fun!
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Heute startet der erste Kurs im Frühjahr in Kaufering. Wir spielen mit Schraffuren. Fineliner auf Brottüte.
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4th graders will be spending the next 2 class sessions creating action figures (with focus on proportion) and a background that demonstrates an understanding of the color wheel and color systems. We start with kids measuring their own heads and figuring out how many heads tall they are (a little math never hurt anybody!). They'll use paper pieces (cut to 7 1/2 heads to the body) to position a figure doing something active. I like to use Keith Haring's "Six Dancing People" and Bernard Stanley Hoyes, "In the Spirit" to illustrate how artists use movement in the human body. We often brainstorm some activities that people do that involve body movement. Sometimes kids pose for each other to get the joints and angles the way they want them. Then I have them loosely make a contour drawing around the pieces. I have to caution them NOT to trace or we end up with strange block figures!! Next, students paint their figure using tints of acrylics. If kids finish early they can use the body pieces to make other poses and try some gesture drawings. On another day, when the paint is dry, children draw a ground line and cut off the bottom portion of their painting (cutting around the legs). They glue their painting on a piece of construction paper that is the complement color of their figure. After drawing a few lines to divide the upper part of their drawing they use crayons, oil pastels or markers to make line designs in each section. I ask that one segment be colored solid in the same color as their bottom construction paper and that each section demonstrate some color system that they can explain (ie. primary colors, complementary colors, warm colors, etc). I usually use Matisse's "Woman in a Purple Robe" when I talk about background patterns and colors. Also, when I did this lesson as a regular classroom teacher, we also wrote cinquains (link: http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/amy/algebra/5-6/activities/poetry/cinquain.html) to illustrate the action of the figure and attached them to the final mounting. I don't think I'll have time for that this year, though. I'll post some finished results when I get them.
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There’s a peculiar syndrome among artists that parallels the discussions of many a record store clerk, except amongst artists “have you heard” becomes “have you seen.” Depending on whose chin is wagging, you might come away with the names of a couple of Argentinian comic artists, a slew of nineteenth century naturalist painters, or someone’s […]
