This document provides guidance on drawing techniques for students. It discusses drawing still lifes, contour drawing, gesture drawing, and studying master artists' works. Students are encouraged to practice different techniques like blind contour drawing and shading to improve hand-eye coordination. They are also assigned homework to set up their own still life at home using ordinary objects.

1. DRAWING WITHOUT FEAR!

3. Joan Miro

7. Shading and Composition
Upside Drawing from Photo

8. Master Studies
(student study of Cezanne)
Student Ink Study of Van Gogh

9. Objects from nature Industrial Objects (Jim Dine)

10. Textures: Paper Cloth (Drapery)

11. Reflective Surfaces

12. Gesture Drawing:
Rapid constant hand movement; records movement of the eye
around the still life

13. Giacometti

14. Leonardo

15. Contour Drawing: Line with no shading; slow, meditative.
Blind contour (this slide) is done without looking at your paper while you draw.
Excellent way to improve or keep sharp your hand-eye coordination.

16. Blind Countour

17. (David Hockney)

18. Picasso - Portrait of Igor Stravinsky

19. Why Still Life??
As an artist, you are an alchemist – you can turn ordinary objects into gold. Below: Monet

20. Sean Kernan

21. Peppers drawn with ballpoint
(unknown artist)

22. Basic Shapes and Proportion

23. Simple “rule of thumb” shading
(drawing by Nancy Mueller)

24. Homework –
Set up your own still life at home – can be simple…

25. …or
complex

26. …or imaginative