Drawing -- '53 Plymouth

This was the first exercise in our drawing class and the most interesting drawing exercise I have ever had.  We did the following over two class periods.  We taped our 36 x 48 inch paper to the wall and pasted random chunks of textured paper to it, "to activate the corners and sides".  (You can see a piece going across the shoulder and tie.)  We then pasted on various pages from the telephone directory.  (Notice the left side.)  We used our brayer (little roller) to keep everything flat.  We then rotated our paper 90 degrees and added a colored (blue) wash over one third of the paper.  We rotated 180 degrees and sketched in a figure from a randomly-selected 1953 newspaper clipping (Plymouth).  We rotated the paper 180 degrees again and sketched in another figure from a different clipping (man with tie).  We rotated again and wherever there were lines forming closed shapes, we painted them in with acrylic washes.  We then chose different colors to highlight the shapes of the figures.  We did not have to stick to the lines.  I enjoyed the process and like the result.  It eliminated all of our presuppositions about what you could or could not do with a drawing.  I'll do this kind of work again.