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Nature Journal: Week II Gesture/Contour
Nature: Image and Object
Week II Nature Journal Assignment
Due: Wednesday, April 9 at 9:00 am
Goal: To practice gesture and contour drawing of objects from observation.
Visit your site and draw for at least two hours. You could gather objects from your site to draw or draw them on site. Your goal is to make ten pages of drawings. Drawing on a double spread counts as two pages. Cover the page with drawings rather than having one little drawing in the middle of each page.
Orient the viewer to this ten-page entry with a date and brief description of what you saw. The description could be woven into the drawings by labeling (see the example on the reverse side from Walker-Leslie’s Keeping a Nature Journal)
Practice the following skills we learned in class. So your journal should include some of each of the following. Label them.
1. gesture drawing
2. blind contour drawing
3. contour drawing with looking
4. gesture/contour drawing combined
Materials: Use pencil or micron pen.
Examples of what a nature journal page of gesture and contour drawings could look like:
See Hinchman, A Trail Through Leaves, page 6, 22, 46, 61, 70,71, 181
Week II Nature Journal Assignment
Due: Wednesday, April 9 at 9:00 am
Goal: To practice gesture and contour drawing of objects from observation.
Visit your site and draw for at least two hours. You could gather objects from your site to draw or draw them on site. Your goal is to make ten pages of drawings. Drawing on a double spread counts as two pages. Cover the page with drawings rather than having one little drawing in the middle of each page.
Orient the viewer to this ten-page entry with a date and brief description of what you saw. The description could be woven into the drawings by labeling (see the example on the reverse side from Walker-Leslie’s Keeping a Nature Journal)
Practice the following skills we learned in class. So your journal should include some of each of the following. Label them.
1. gesture drawing
2. blind contour drawing
3. contour drawing with looking
4. gesture/contour drawing combined
Materials: Use pencil or micron pen.
Examples of what a nature journal page of gesture and contour drawings could look like:
See Hinchman, A Trail Through Leaves, page 6, 22, 46, 61, 70,71, 181
