Creative Environment class

[Coley]

@burvantill i remember doing these excercises, they really are fun!

[burvantill]

Trees! I like to draw trees. I found it to be a little difficult to invent tree shapes at first but by the last one I was in a groove. Same thing happened with the houses.

[braden H]

@burvantill Awesome! This is one of the classes where I learned a LOT and it really changed my drawing (for the better). Thinking in silhouette is a game changer.

[burvantill]

My favorite house and tree as a subjective drawing. Im wondering if it’s subjective enough

[burvantill]

Finally finished the value/composition study from the workbook. I picked images that I liked but I think I liked some of the images for reasons other than good composition. I could tell the difference between a good composition and a not great composition as soon as I tried to replicate them. This is definitely a good learning tool.

I moved on to workbook 2 and had to make a village hut from shapes provided. It was relaxing just to draw and invent on the fly. I did use some reference for details tho.

[deborah Haagenson]

Wow, great work! This looks like so much fun! I have got to complete some of what I'm working on now first though. I have a habit of wanting to jump right in and start something new that sounds like so much fun like this, but I think I need catch up with myself - Book covers, heads, hands, monthly contest and that's only the tip of the iceburg.

[Heather Boyd]

@burvantill the value studies were really good, thinking back. Now bringing it forward I want to find both more children's book backgrounds and a collection of landscape backgrounds (separate) to value study like this. Maybe I can squeeze it in this week before starting the magic of colour class (then post it here next Wednesday).

Good work on progressing through all this!

[burvantill]

Draw a couch from the shapes provided. Homework from workbook 2.
My gma had wood furniture like this. I inherited her chair. The cushions were too old and they fell apart but the wood is still beautiful. The cushion material wasn’t patterned like this but i wouldn’t have been surprised if it had been. Orange and olive green were a common occurrence in her house.

[Braxton]

@burvantill I just started going through the class, but I'll post what I do as I work on it. Here are my building silhouettes, this definitely didn't come naturally to me and some of them are still a bit unclear.

[burvantill]

@Braxton Great shapes! I think this was my favorite part of the class. Silhouettes.
I think the first column 3rd row is my personal favorite.

[Braxton]

@burvantill thanks! It was cool to look at yours and see things I totally didn’t think of. On to trees next...

[Heather Boyd]

@Braxton I like the long legged spider or on stilts house.

[burvantill]

Another shape building exercise. Make a building from these shapes

Instead of an office building like I’ve seen others do i wanted to build a big house.

[burvantill]

This is a master study of a “house” painted by James C. Christensen.
Make a study of a building by a favorite artist. Focus on proportion and shape.

[Heather Boyd]

@burvantill

Hi so I just decided to show you my best 4 on here, when I did them last year, if that's alright. Because you asked to see them. I had soooo much fun in spite of the challenge lols.

[burvantill]

@Heather-Boyd These are great! Thankyou for sharing.

Making little greyscale versions was a great idea. I may steal that.

[burvantill]

Eyvind Earle value and composition study

Pascal Campion value and composition study

[burvantill]

Maxfield Parrish value and composition study

[burvantill]

The next assignment was to create my own value and composition environment. I did three because I was having trouble. It was way easier to do the copies than to make up my own.

[burvantill]

I finished the last assignment!
Take an element from the previous subjective assignment and make an objective study of it. I used the tiny cabin from my third value and composition image. It’s a thatched roof that slopes toward the back. I’m hoping that comes across and doesn’t just look like a perspective issue. Lol.

Anyway, I’m done. How’s that perspective group comin’ @Braden-Hallett ?