Maclean doesn't practice formal studies in contour and tone, her every effort is an exploration.Her she models the figure with hot colours. The hottest colour, yellow, on a plane with the paper and describing the edges of the body closest to us. The red orange, slightly cooler, describing the forms curving away from us and the warm purple describing the steepening of the curve away from us.
Then Maclean binds it all in a purple contour line to create a design for a neon sign...
This one was promptly nick-named the stripper....
Shayni started her first class standing close to her easel and drawing small with careful scratchy movements of her pencil. I have to discourage this normal habit without being negative and encourage large and free flowing lines.People always learn more from seeing other's work than from what I might say and here, the last drawing of the night, Shayni is drawing large and confident. We ran out of time for her to finish the hands of this drawing and she says hands are difficult to draw and they are but I can see Shayni has an eye for proportion in any scale and it will be nice to see her work progress.
Above: you want colour? Anne is your girl!
Above: Maclean is one of several members of the class who gets straight in there with sure contour lines.
Maclean
Cameron using earth colours on parchment coloured faux paint-effects wallpaper.
Above: One of Janice's works done on the back of wallpaper
Above: One of Carla's beautiful studies done on the front of a wallpaper with a faux stucco finish in a lovely parchment colour with subtle hatched umber. Christine brought along a roll of this and most everyone tried it out. A great background colour for nude figure drawings.
Christine, big bold contour drawing.
below: Saskia's study
