Imaginism Workshop Day 14: More Boxes than you can handle

We got a ton of homework this weekend, and we all put most of it off until today. I'm sorry to say that it's nothing to exciting. Unless you get inordinately excited about boxes. And then, you're a little weird.

I think we're nearing the end of our study on basic light technique. Hopefully, well move on to color soon.
Here are the 30 minute shape studies that we did. The goal is to paint all of the things that your brain needs to accept something as "real" and match the values as closely as possible in 30 minutes or less.

Past workshops also did  study of Bouguereau's nudes using boxes. "T" stopped assigning this in order to focus a second day on cube heads. Since we're all gluttons for punishment we asked him to assign it on top of the new content. Here is my submission.

Shit, I just realized that I forgot one!

Lastly, my Art book of the day is another one of Stephen Silver's Sketch book. I originally picked it up because it looks exactly like a 11x17 Bristol board sketch pad. I thought an old student left it behind and I could snag it. This book is filled with Stephen's lunch drawings. Lately, I feel like I've become more restrictive with my shape vocabulary when drawing people from life. The sketch book is a breath of fresh and gave me a ton of new ideas to try.

Imaginism Workshop Day 10: Moving on to contrast

We've finally vanquished the malevolent horde that is the cube heads. Though, I'd bet money we haven't seen the last of them. Actually, I found my self imagining Large office buildings as 1x2x1 1/2 giant heads as we dropped Diana off at the airport. It's a pretty good way to make use of time spent waiting.

We've finally moved into the world of value and contrast studies, which aren't always the same thing. I've also learned that  Bouguereau is the shit! Every time we learn something new, it turns out that he mastered it over 100 years ago. The fact that there were artists who derided late in his career amazes me.

We did 2 contrast studies from him during class.

I know that they don't look the same, but squint your eyes
and moving far away. It's magic.

These are kind of like the "find the sail boat" puzzels. 

Lastly, for our home work, we did 20 more contrast studies from Bouguereau and copied this picture a cube.

The cube provided

My painting of the cube provided

Here's my homework submission

Lastly, my Art book of the day was for mega mind. This is another movie that I wrote off, but now really want to see. There was a lot of thought that went into the narrative that I didn't realize.