Spring break is an appropriate time to trot out some of the work I have done leading up to this point in the semester. I am learning how to draw, and I have a fantastic teacher, Monica Fogg. She's pushing me to dig a little deeper, to not be so minimal and safe in my technique. So for the midterm project, we picked a piece of produce and explored drawing it in at least eighteen different ways, twelve of which were mounted, according to some grouping principle, on Crescent board.
I chose a pineapple, which I carried around in my book bag for two weeks. Of the twelve drawings I mounted, the top left was my favorite. It's a highly detailed and very delicate pencil rendering of a dried pineapple slice, which I also used (third row, right) as a stamp. This assignment was fun and allowed me to try many different media, including collage, pen, charcoal, paint, and beeswax. Other favorite drawings include the blind contour drawing (third row, left), in which I drew the pineapple top without looking at the paper. I also really like how the calligraphic strokes (top row, center) turned out. Inadvertently, the strokes formed diamonds, such as those that appear in other pieces, leading to a similarity grouping.
Next up in drawing: perspective, where we draw an interior view of McNeal Hall, my home away from home.
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