Allegory of Painting

A project completed and I am very glad.  I decided to take a life drawing class this semester.  It is a fantastic class at Saddleback College with Cynthia Grilli.  I love everything about it except that all the homework takes away from painting time and all other time I was uses to having free.  This Vermeer copy was part of the midterm.  The assignment was to copy the values of colors in the original work by Vermeer using vine charcoal and touches of compressed charcoal.  As anxious as I was to do this project, I really like the way it turned out and the process.  Translating color to value is key to everything in painting.  So this is not an exercise that I would choose to do,  but I must say it was worth all the time it took.  

My Vermeer

I'm taking this fabulous life drawing class this semester down at Saddleback College with Cynthis Grilli. This is my mid term project. We were to copy a Vermeer from a color copy to a value drawing using vine charcoal. It was an exercise in value along with understanding spacial relationships. We drew it as if we were drawing from life by taping the copy to a wall and copying it. We could not graph it or project it. Great project for learning how to get all your line relationship to fit in a space of the same ratio. It is like a puzzle at first and then it just falls into place. I still need to put in some detail lines and darken a few areas, but I am very close to being done. Hurrah!!!