Sunday, January 3, 2010

Art Foundations -- Value Study

Volcanic Glass















Our assignment was to do a non-objective value study in graphite with five distinct values. I call this Volcanic Glass, after images of the volcanic glass crystals that are created in every volcanic eruption. This drawing was done very early in the semester, but note the black around the edges of the drawing. I term this the void. It sometimes creeps into a composition, just as portions of the compositional subject sometimes escape from the picture plane into the space around it. The void will also show again in later compositions.

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