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<\/p>\nSo, I finally got the 11 x 14 inch mixed media drawing pad. The texture of paper is very heavy and there’s a lot of substance in it.<\/p>\n
For this drawing, I did three glass cups with three fruits, one inside the cup and two outside the cups. The reflection of the cup in the front “splits” the cup on the left into “two-halfs”, creating an illusion. The cups and the fruits were not very difficult to draw, except there are a lot of details that I have to take care of (and takes a lot of time). I wonder if I should finish up the background and everything as well or just leave the drawing like this since it showcases the most important structures and reflections of the cups and the fruits.<\/p>\n
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X<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n (MW) I was pleased to see that the comments shared some observations about the white space, so I took it back into Snapseed to get a better sense of how it’s working (by lightening the paper). There were slight losses in the pencil areas as a result (you need a better original exposure to get bright whites and strong colors) but no problem–it proved my guess that the paper is working just beautifully.<\/p>\n This might seem like an odd comparison, but this drawing actually brings to mind Willem deKooning<\/strong>‘s late work. The color somewhat but what I’m getting at is how the marks activate the white field to such a high degree that it actually becomes about that quality.<\/p>\n The other artist this brought to mind for the same reason is Charles Demuth<\/strong> (a contemporary and friend of O’Keeffe). Different subject, of course, but a similar dance between the drawing and the paper:<\/p>\n So, I finally got the 11 x 14 inch mixed media drawing pad. The texture of paper is very heavy and there’s a lot of substance in it. For this drawing, I did three glass cups with three fruits, one inside the cup and two outside the cups. The reflection of the cup in the … Continue reading “Through the Looking Glass–Fruits”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1058,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-week-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2020\/04\/JH.Revised.jpg\")
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