Experimental Drawing and the Figure with Keith Gunderson

Experimental Drawing and the Figure with Keith Gunderson

Experimental Drawing with the Figure at the Woodstock School of Art was held this week and it was a blast.

Participants prepared various papers with textures, imbuing them with powerful MetaData, all designed to enhance the figure within its figure frame reference. Exercises in rhythm gesture and scale were explored with rigorous techniques designed to enhance visualization. In addition, we explored the nature of how the brain processes visual information using cues and symbologies. Finally,  we explored how to construct a workflow that suits our individual expression. 

Experimental Drawing with the Figure with Keith Gunderson

Apricots and Grapes

A little still life of fruit. I am very much thinking about how texture and metadata can portray light- the way light bounces and diffuses. As it diffuses it translates into a kind of noise or pixelation, much as the algorithms in Photoshop emulate these dynamics.

Flow

A charcoal and pastel drawing on blue Canson paper.

Winter Sycamores

Winter Sentinels is a painting that i made of a stand of Sycamores in a field near my house.

Portrait in Ink and Wash

A sepia ink and wash portrait of a man.