{"id":4472,"date":"2010-02-24T07:46:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2016-11-08T22:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T05:33:43","slug":"sketching-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/sketching-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketching #50"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I took art classes in college I always enjoyed contour drawing.\u00a0 Contour drawing is where you look at the object you are drawing and NOT at your paper.<\/p>\n

I got quite good at it and decided that I would use that technique for my Inspiration drawing<\/a>. It took me awhile to actually get to it and when I finally did I just sat down and drew with what I had – no fancy drawing book or paper or pen. I used the following two photos as the basis for my inspiration drawings.<\/p>\n

\"Crate<\/a>
Crate & Barrel Regent Serveware<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dishes are below:<\/p>\n

\"Crate<\/a>
Crate & Barrel Regent Place Setting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And here are the contour drawings:<\/p>\n

Serveware:<\/p>\n

\"Serveware<\/a>
Serveware Contour Drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I left a little of the notebook page in when I cropped the picture so you could see that I just used my working journal; I didn’t use anything special. I did the drawing at a Starbuck’s using a picture on my phone and the pen I had in my purse.<\/p>\n

Here is the place setting:<\/p>\n

\"Place<\/a>
Place Setting Contour Drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This one came out much better. I am out of practice using this technique. One of the things I like about contour drawing is the movement you get in the drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I took art classes in college I always enjoyed contour drawing.\u00a0 Contour drawing is where you look at the object you are drawing and NOT at your paper. I got quite good at it and decided that I would use that technique for my Inspiration drawing. It took me awhile to actually get to … Continue reading “Sketching #50”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[390],"tags":[176,311,72],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-cpp-response","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}