AIS lesson 21

This is assignment 21 from the Art Instruction School: Arranging your picture. I have been putting this one off for MONTHS which is the advantage and curse of home study programs. Life keeps getting in the way. Anyhoo... the idea was to take a photo composition and to rearrange it so that the small shed is the focus of the drawing. I agonized over this one for months and finally just said "the heck with it" and drew it up. So this is the final work and I'm sending it in today.

I think this is the perfect example of my friction in art: when the artist comes up with every excuse in the book to NOT complete a project. Nevertheless, the deed is done. Hooray for me!

Drawing the eye

Okay, a little play on words. You'll find no eyes here!

The exercise is called the Center of Interest and it's part of the coursework I'm doing for the Art Instruction School. The lesson covers how the human eye is drawn into a composition and how in your art you can lure the viewer in.

These are just simple drawings but you can see from the pencils that the eye is drawn to the pencil that contrasts sharpest with the others. In the second drawing, the bottle with the most detail draws the eye.

Doesn't really fit with my desire to be more free flowing with art, but the course has been excellent in teaching me so many fundamentals.