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| "Rupert Murdoch" (pencil and white chalk on scrap booking paper) |
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| Drawing of a mouth (Nupastel on paper) |
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| Lisa doing a demo of noses |
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| My turn at noses (pencil on paper) |
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| Eyes (pencil and white chalk on Canson Mi-teintes paper) |
The portrait drawing class with Lisa Semerad at the Art League School in Alexandria, VA is over. It went so fast that everything is all blurry. One day we were learning to draw mouths, then in the next class, noses; on Thursday, Lisa taught us what to do with teeth, eyes, and ears, and turned us out of the classroom! I think this is definitely the case of "a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing." She told the class to avoid art books that promise "tricks" of doing this and that easily. There are no tricks in art, just good old practice. Yes, ma'am!
I loved the technique of graphite pencil and white chalk drawing on toned paper that she showed us in the last class so much that, while I was watching TV last night, I did a drawing of Rupert Murdoch, who is embroiled in scandals in Britain for his News Corporation's nefarious phone-tapping, police-bribing deals. His haughty, disdainful expression is something else, don't you think? The choice of gray art paper with random Alphabet letters was serendipitous.
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