Yarn Bombing Book and Oh Deary Me
The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffitiby Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain
Arsenal Pulp Press
The book is heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere and if you look at my side bar you will see a widget with a wee slide show that includes the jafagirls 'knit fairy" on Dayton Street in Yellow Springs, woo hoo. I can't even list all the fabu yarny contributers, but their work with knock your woolly socks off.
Check out what the New Yorker had to say
Life Drawing
The Oh Deary Me part
It's been about 3 years too long since I did any nude figure drawing and eek! am I out of practice. It was GREAT to actually have a model available in town and much thanks to a friend for setting it up.
The Oh Deary Me part
It's been about 3 years too long since I did any nude figure drawing and eek! am I out of practice. It was GREAT to actually have a model available in town and much thanks to a friend for setting it up.
25 minute poseI struggled with one leg being too thin and the other being thicker and the proportions of the legs in relation to each other. I was aiming for simple lines that suggested the form and gentle modeling.With life drawing you can't draw what you think you see, what you perceive as a body, you have to really SEE and that takes practice, practice and more practice.
5 Skills of Observation
Comments
When I was in college, my younger brother and sister and some neighborhood friends signed up for a one-day art class at the local college. Much to their surprise, it turned out to be a life drawing class, using a very nude male model.
When my girlfriend (now wife) heard about their adventure, she gasped and, all wide-eyed, asked "How long was it?" By "it" of course, she meant the class.
Being mentally 9 years old, however, I burst out laughing...
Bill, really you ordered one. You might get one before me, I haven't been sent my copy yet. Yes writing skills are pretty sad nowadays. Interesting list of skills and particularly the one about writing.
I miss the daily discipline of life drawing. When we were in school it was an everyday practice and it really was an amazing teacher of the body.