Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Drawing is a combination of Perception and Conception. We can also think of this as Vision and Abstraction. For example:
We will begin next week with Line. Line is abstract. (Abstract - Expressing a quality apart from an object.) When we draw a line, we are not recording a line that we see. Line is not a representation of a sense impression in the direct sense that color is. Line drawing is an abstract activity. When we draw a line, it is our perceptual judgement moving to visual abstraction.
I would like you to think of the drawings that you will do in class as visual records of a search. It will be important for you to give up your preconceptions about what you a are seeing, and become open to seeing in a new way. I'd like for you to give yourselves over to the process of seeing and drawing. Concentration is very important.
We will begin next week with Line. Line is abstract. (Abstract - Expressing a quality apart from an object.) When we draw a line, we are not recording a line that we see. Line is not a representation of a sense impression in the direct sense that color is. Line drawing is an abstract activity. When we draw a line, it is our perceptual judgement moving to visual abstraction.
I would like you to think of the drawings that you will do in class as visual records of a search. It will be important for you to give up your preconceptions about what you a are seeing, and become open to seeing in a new way. I'd like for you to give yourselves over to the process of seeing and drawing. Concentration is very important.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
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