The Expressive Figure
Expressive Figure Assignment
Materials:
- Hake Brush
- Sumi Brush
- Taklon Synthetic Round
- Da Vinci Casaneo Quill Mop
- Reed Pen/Quill
- Light Red Watercolor
- Sepia Watercolor
- Brown Madder Watercolor
- Chinese Ink
- Chinese Ink diluted 1:3
- Soapy Water
- Paper Towel
- Sea Sponge
Concept: Using the aqueous media (brush with watercolor), mass the shadow shapes and isolate pigment along the camber with special emphasis on preserving the band of LIGHT that moves vertically along the form adjacent to the edge of shadow CAMBER. This area of light is untouched by the dispersion of watercolor and remains dry. You are in effect working in a modified ADDITIVE manner- with the caveat that you are only adding darks- the lights are already evident in the tone of the paper.
Draw at least three poses using these textural dispersion techniques, paying close attention to the camber and the column of light of dry white paper.
Concept: Using the aqueous media (brush with watercolor), mass the shadow shapes and isolate pigment along the camber with special emphasis on preserving the band of LIGHT that moves vertically along the form adjacent to the edge of shadow CAMBER. This area of light is untouched by the dispersion of watercolor and remains dry. You are in effect working in a modified ADDITIVE manner- with the caveat that you are only adding darks- the lights are already evident in the tone of the paper.
Draw at least three poses using these textural dispersion techniques, paying close attention to the camber and the column of light of dry white paper.
1. Using TAKLON SYNTHETIC ROUND, QUILL MOP, SUMI BRUSH, or similar equivalent brush, paint shadow shapes/mass using watercolor color of choice.
2.Using a more PRECISE brush/tool ( REED PEN, SUMI BRUSH or equivalent) work back into shadow shape with watercolor or ink to describe the camber/ shadow core.
Recomendation: merely touch the ink laden pen nib/brush to the edge of the camber wet areas and observe how the ink behaves within a wet dispersion.
3. Using a PAPER TOWEL, SEA SPONGE or equivalent, soften the lost and found edges along the camber as it moves against the light column.
Suggested Experimentation:
Be careful to preserve the light column.
Lost and found edges are determined by the abruptness of planar deviation as well as soft tissue/bone contrast. Soft tissue disperses the light whereas bone reflects the light more completely
Notice how the light moves diagonally across the figure from the upper right skimming across to the upper thigh on the shadow side. Also evident is the cylindrical cast shadow of her left leg across her right leg.
Notice how cast shadows "MOVE" across the volumes, describing their form.
Keira Leilani Stills
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