Drawing the same subject repeatedly, each time more quickly than the last

1. DRAWING TOWARD ABSTRACTION
Abstraction: distorts the view, or greatly simplifies
and reduces the structure of a known thing, person, or place,
often into its most elemental geometric components.

2. Series of abstractions by Piet Mondrian:
1. Recognizable subject; fairly realistic landscape setting

3. 2. Familiarity with the subject allows Mondrian to quickly find the basic forms
and impose a grid-like structure on the piece

4. 3. Further simplification into geometric shapes – notice how a cross-like grid is forming

5. 4. Final pure form

6. “HALF-LIFE” DRAWING:
A series of drawings using the same subject,
drawn 1st for 45 minutes,
the 2nd time for 22 minutes,
the 3rd time for 11 minutes
and the fourth time for 6 minutes

7. 3 series-es by Picasso

8. Monique Stevens – leaf drawing 1

9. Leaf drawing 2

10. Leaf Drawing 3

11. Leaf Drawing 4 – notice tones (shades of light and dark) and their shapes

12. RISD student series of increasingly fast drawings (out of order)

13. RISD student drawings of a single subject

14. You can use any subject - look at the forms this loosely piled and torn paper produces

15. For homework, use one or more of your drawings to work from to produce a new
abstraction. Be sure to bring all 4 drawings to class Dec. 5.