Dr. Graham Figure Drawing Article

I really enjoyed Dr. Graham's figure drawing article.  I think sometimes I don't realize how brilliant he is at structuring his classroom.  I love that this unit pushes students to be better artists.  I really do think that there is value in learning how to draw like this and I think that Dr. Graham found a way to balance teaching technical skill while also helping them analyze the merit of developing that technical skill, and helping them see how they can apply to their own artistic practice.  I also think that it's amazing that Dr. Graham was able to help students feel comfortable doing something as difficult as figure drawing.  I think that what he did in creating a hospitable environment and helping students feel that their drawings were impermanent (drawing over drawings, etc.) was so important.

Natural Material Container

My first attempts at making a container out of natural materials involved tying a million blades of grass together.  It didn't work very well.  Then I wove some sticks and grass together, but that didn't work very well either (that's the raft like object that the carved cucumber is sitting on).  I decided to try a more subtractive process and I carved this cucumber so that it could hold water. 

Chris Jordan

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