Botanical Art -- Week 1 of 5

Week 1 of class was mostly introduction to the CBS Conservatory, to each other, and to some materials. We did blind contour, regular contour and negative space drawings. No homework assignment.

I didn't like the way the room was laid out and I think I might change it on Tuesday into big squares. It's weird to me to be in lecture rows for an art class.

I had to slow myself down to do our drawings  (difficult). I must scribble most of the time or dash things onto paper or board. I'll say I'm emoting on the the paper or board.

At home, I drew a 6-pack of nasturtium seedlings I brought home from work because I thought the cat might like to eat them (she's ho-hum about them). I used the notebook that I made in Roz's textures class and chose this page because I didn't like the color. I decided I'll probably like it eventually. It's only a pencil layer. Soon it will be 6 layers deep and will have ink, watercolor, more texture, and I don't knows what else.

I'm putting it here so I remember how it started out. I might even like the page background too. The white line is the binding.

The next day I did a negative space drawing of a section of the pot of nasturtiums. I did it on a piece of paper already background painted and then filled in the negative space with blue ArtGraf and surrounded it with a pink Montana marker. You can see some of the bubble wrap texture under the ArtGraf and the background texture in the positive spaces.

A few of the plants in the conservatory: