February 2014

[Jane Noakes]

The challenge this month was to further develop my tonal modelling through a number of representional still life compositions. I needed to overcome the tyranny of line by avoiding line drawing altogether. Through this process, I discovered that the lost and found lines in a drawing become immediately more apparent, enabling me to create line through the use of tone alone. To achieve lost lines I am using an eraser and leaving the canvas white or lightly shaded. I am also beginning to assess the overall balance between the weight of the found lines with that of the lost lines and am looking at areas with the same tonal value and trying to link these. Understanding these techniques have helped me handle perspective in compositions with a shallow depth of field, as I am beginning to understand how shapes relate to one another and to the planes that they lie in.