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My goal for a 10 second gesture drawing is not to end up with a fully developed or even 1/2 way developed drawing. My goal was just to loosen up and keep my attention in the actual figure. At best in a 10 second drawing, I have 1-2 lines that suggest or imply the figure.

The medium is matte medium. It appears white when wet but it will dry clear once dry. I use matte medium for all classes because it removes the glare from the paint when photographing the student’s work. It also slows done the drying time and makes paint more transparent. Much better to use medium rather than water with acrylic paint to make transparent. Water breaks down the paint and makes it too fluid. Hope this helps!

Matte medium (not clear gesso) correct? Tyvm!

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Metals class is next door so can’t change that. I would love to add another screen to show what I’m doing off camera but I don’t have the equipment to do that. As a classroom teacher you do the best you can with what you have. My students tend to do well with the measuring as it gives them something concrete to work with. Up to this point, they have had very little experience drawing from direct observation. Someone with more experience can do without all the measuring.

There is a metals class next door so the noise is an everyday occurrence. We get used to it.

Thank you!

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There should be sound to this video. It works when I play it.

Well, that’s interesting 😜.

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Students were encouraged to create asymmetrical designs. It is very difficult to create a symmetrical hand built vessel in clay especially when it’s your first. It also encourages the students to create designs that are unique and beyond traditional forms.

For most of my students this is the first time ever drawing a figure from direct observation so they tend to be tight and too focused on details. By starting off at 10 seconds it prevents them from doing this and makes them just focus on the gesture. They only do about 2-4 of these to start then I gradually add time ending with a 20-30 minute drawing. Class periods range from 48 minutes to 1.5 hours so unfortunately that prevents us from doing any longer drawings and still providing a proper warm up.

I agree, I learned gesture from slow phase of observation. Also a lot of the great master's Like Brent Eviston, Steve Huston, Glenn Vilppu and etc. they focus more on the flow with a solid forms. Meaning that while doing the gestures they'll also took the forms into consideration, like flow then containment. Ohh well, she's the teacher and she had her way. There's a lot of variation of gestures so does techniques.

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My students do tend to use several layers and increase the pressure as they build the layers to get a burnished surface. Almost all students have a noticeable wax bloom 2 weeks after the project is finished. For my advanced students they typically see the wax bloom in just the areas they built up layers and increased pressure. The areas that have fewer layers do not get wax bloom. Hope this helps!

Good tip! Thank you!

Zach Dalangin I’m glad you found this helpful!

God'stime John Glad I was able to help

Anita Bloom The key with any form is to make sure there is a value change for each form change. If the form changes drastically then the value will also be drastically different.

I think so probably a little bit

Xanderful209 The Kleenex doesn’t smear the color pencil much but the trick is to constantly switch to a clean area of the tissue so as to not mix the colors.

Stephanie Gauer thank you for your response. I do have one more question however.What kind of acrylic coating do you use to seal your color pencil work ? I tried using the krylon spray varnish and it’s just made my drawing sticky after hours of drying.

Xanderful209 I use Krylon Crystal Clear Acrylic Coating.

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You are so very welcome!! My students will be using these contour shoe videos very soon 😁 for their remote learning.

You are very welcome!

Malika Chakrabarti You are very welcome!

I’m not sure how to do that, but I will look into it.

Metals class next door

Practice is the key!