Visual Library: Figure Drawings

Negative Shape Figures

with Wet Media

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Finding the Chi

The premise of Chi meditation technique is simple.

i. Many practitioners of it recommend that when inhaling, you think of taking life energy into your body.

ii. When you exhale, release that energy.

This breathing technique can be applied to almost all chi meditations and movements.

iii. When engaged in drawing gestural figures, think that you are recording a thread of energy moving around your body. Similar to one's breathe, this line appears alive, organic and reacts to your sensitive touch and pressure of your tool.

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Richard Diebenkorn

Bay Area Artist

1922 - 1993

David Park

Bay Area Artist

1911 - 1960 (49 yo)

Project #1: DRAWING is...

What is Drawing? According to Webster's dictionary, drawing is defined as “the art or technique of representing an object or outlining a figure, plan, or sketch by means of lines." This, of course, is usually the first thing many people think of when it comes to drawing, I was and still am one of them. Yet, after really contemplating the word drawing and looking through various definitions, I’ve come to find that it's meaning isn’t art specific, it engulfs a lot of different positions. Drawing isn’t just about the line one puts on paper, it’s about what you take from that line. Minimalist artist Sol LeWitt once said, “When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who could be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations." I think the same thing goes for the word drawing , drawing has always been seen as this one method used in th...

Project #5 Negative Shape Drawings

In drawings there are three basic elements of composition: the frame (the edge of the pictorial space) the positive the negative space The positive space is easiest to understand because we see it. Generally, it is the space occupied by your subject. Conversely, negative space is the space that is not your subject and people often simply forget about. Simply put, Negative space is the space that surrounds an object within an image. It is just as important as that object itself -- air is important for most every living organisms, isn't it? N egative space helps to define the boundaries of positive space and brings balance to a composition. The negative space is defined by the edges of the positive space and the frame or border (the third element). Thus, part of our negative space is bound by the frame and another part is bounded by the positive space. S...

Contemporary Artist + Designer List

a global list of artists / designers for your reference with URL links ... Marina Abramovic (born 1946), performance artist Vito Acconci (born 1940), installation and performance artist Rita Ackermann (born 1968), artist Chantal Akerman (born 1950-2015), filmmaker Vikky Alexander (born 1959), installation artist Edward Allington (born 1951) sculptor Laurie Anderson (born 1947), performance artist Carl Andre (born 1935), sculptor Janine Antoni (born 1964), sculptor and installation artist Ida Applebroog (born 1929), painter Nobuyoshi Araki (born 1940), photographer Siah Armajani (born 1939), sculptor Mireille Astore (born 1961), conceptual, performance and installation artist Javier Arevalo (1936),Painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992), painter Jo Baer (born 1929), painter John Baldessari (born 1931), conceptual artist Banksy (born 1974), graffiti ar...

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