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Technical Directive 14 October 2004 Preparing to Sketch Seeing to Sketch One day in 1975, I was instructing a young man who, to put it mildly, had minimum drawing skills. But, he desperately wanted to learn. Rick was totally frustrated. Nothing I did helped. Then I asked myself this question: “When I draw, what do [...]
Technical Directive 13 October 2004 Parts of Line Drawing A line drawing has the following elements: • Its SPACE is the blank paper. • Its DIMENSIONS (sizes or measurements) are distances between any two points. • Its LINES represent edges—the boundaries where parts of objects end and the space begins. A line can be straight [...]
Technical Directive 12 October 2004 What to Draw We use still life (objects, fruit and plants) as subjects to draw. Each separate thing is a prop. The props are arranged on a backdrop cloth draped over a stand. We call a complete arrangement a setup. Working from setups is the fastest way for students to [...]
Technical Directive 11 October 2004 The Infinity Drill I’ve created a drill that focuses on the mechanics of sketching—from the way to sit to how you hold a pencil. The idea is to be COMPLETELY RELAXED and sketch as LIGHTLY AND LOOSELY as possible. This makes it much easier to see and fit parts together. [...]
Technical Directive 10 October 2004 Basic Building Blocks of Art If you’ve ever built a sand castle, you know that the broader the base, the higher it can go. The same is true of ART. The broadest base for Art is contained in the tiny root word, ar, from the ten-thousand-year-old language of Sanskrit. It [...]
Technical Directive 31 October 2004 Fitting It All Together The Basic Line Drawing Course contains a myriad of ways to draw accurately with certainty and control. Listed below are all the rules given on the course. Some are more important than others. I’ve separated them into groups and arranged each rule generally in the order [...]
Technical Directive 6 November 2004 Keep 'Em Moving Everyone has an OPTIMUM RATE of learning: every step being done successfully, as rapidly and easily as possible. So your marching orders are simple: TO DIRECT EVERY STUDENT SUCCESSFULLY THROUGH THE METHOD WITH A MINIMUM WASTE OF TIME AND EFFORT. There is no medal in the Arts [...]
Technical Directive 22 April 2005 Setups Both children and adults learn how to draw and paint the real world from still life setups. Every setup must suit the step being learned, matching the intent of that step as well as that particular student’s current level of ability.
Technical Directive 17 May 2006 Palette and Painting Knives Here and there I’ve given bits of information regarding the use of palette and painting knives. A painter can use a palette knife (shaped like a kitchen spatula) to clear paint from a palette or to premix additional colors, thus increasing the number of beginning colors [...]
Technical Directive 24 April 2007 Children's Program Alterations Cancelled It has come to my attention that a great deal of change has been implemented into the children’s program, much of which was not approved by me. These changes include the Art for Beginners Checklist, Sketching for Children Checklist, Tone Drawing for Children Checklist as well [...]
