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Hello to my seniors! Quick little portrait demo using continuous line/contour drawing. Have fun and let me know how it goes!

If you’re interested in doing an ongoing lesson observing tree buds, please follow the link in my profile. This lesson is also for middle school students at HVWS and will be shared through the school accordingly. This is one of the BEST exercises you can do—you’re basically witnessing an ongoing miracle! My recommendation for doing artistic work, especially with children, is to put your phone one top of the fridge (or another designated place that is out of the way) to create a distraction-free zone. I’m already feeling the effects of too much computer/phone time just through the process of documenting my work to make it available to all of you ❤️ I will post more detailed video instructions later to help with actual drawing.

Lesson 1 — Part A Preparation for drawing tree buds. [This exercise will be an ongoing one and I will likely add others in between.] In observational drawing, the setting you prepare for your object of study can make all of the difference in the experience and the outcome. It can quiet and simplify the mood, allowing you to bring greater focus to your subject. You can even call it devotion. Here are multiple situations for drawing the same object. If you have a bulletin board and a large sheet of white paper, you can pin the paper to it like a photography backdrop. Or even pin or tape paper to a wall. This gives you a bright clean surface to work around and simplifies your surroundings. So... Part A is essentially... clean and prepare an open, distraction-free space. Find some paper—whatever you have—pencils, eraser if you like. Make an empty space so that you can place something into it. More soon on Part B, which will be selecting your object of study and how to begin. * * Lesson recommended for around 12 years of age through adulthood, but younger children can always do their own interpretation. These circumstances are new, difficult, and unexpected, so we’re all doing the best we can. I’m working to create exercises that come somewhat out of what I’d be doing within the Waldorf curriculum, but are more accessible to everyone, potentially with limited resources AND without one-on-one instruction. That’s the main difference for me here: not teaching with real, live students in front of me!

Who is she? I don’t know. Sometimes we surprise ourselves. I’ve been doing some one-on-one painting sessions with someone and the last exercise we did together was a portrait. I’d had something like this in mind for a senior portrait exercise this year, but never tried it due to time constraints. The day previous I had worked a bit on my own sample portrait painting, so when I painted this I had something of the memory of it within me, already a translation from mirror to paper. But she is someone else. Where she came from, I can never be sure.

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