Today we drew and painted from a wonderful garden themed still life (complete with ‘ancient gnome’).
We began with a classic warm up - Continuous Line Drawing - drawing a continuous line, with the non-dominant hand, not taking the drawing implement off the paper, and without looking at the paper. This is a great exercise for turning off the ‘knowing’ part of our brain (for example, the part that thinks it already knows what an ancient gnome looks like, meaning we don’t really see the unique gnome that is in front of us properly, and therefore cannot draw it accurately).
Some people experimented with changing the size of the objects, as well as moving them around on the paper. Some left the background blank, in order to accentuate the still life, and some drew in a background (complete with horse through the window). One person started their own personal project also, with a semi abstracted, textured landscape.
Another fantastic session, thank you everyone!
