CLOUDS

Start these assignments early in the week in case of uncooperative weather.

Drawing #1 - Draw a page or pages of sketches. Become familiar with different shapes & especially the different shadows within the clouds. (1 -2 hours)

  
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Drawing #2 - drawing with erasures - coat a sheet of paper with light or medium grey - you may use powdered graphite, charcoal or grey pastels.
Include the horizon line & observe the different value of the sky there or anywhere else.
Use at least two or three different kinds of erasures to obtain certain effects (thin line, clear mark, smudged mark, etc). (2 - 3 hrs.) examples:

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Drawing #3 - applied and erased drawing methods.
This should be a complete, finished drawing observing rules of composition, neatness, contrast & value gradation. (2 -3 hours)

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