3/12/2008

Week Two

This week we will be spending time in Nuenen Belgium where Van Gogh

lived among the peasants. We ended last week with the Potato Eaters. We

plan to revisit this painting and look more carefully at technique. Then we

will look at a study of peasant woman's head and another study of hands,

both of  which he eventually used in the Potato Eaters final composition

We will work on our own practice sketches of hands and heads. We will

study drawings from this period.

Here are some sites on his sketches: 

http://www.vggallery.com/letters/sketches/main.htm

http://www.vggallery.com/drawings/main_ac.htm

We will also be doing a lesson drawing Spherical Objects, Drawing

with Different Media, and Drawing Unusual Shapes from the book:

The Fundementals of Drawing Still Life by Barrington Barber. This

book is a free download from: http://www.wowio.com/index.asp

There are lots of free books on art.

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