Life imitating art

Cake Window {Seven Cakes} WT

Wayne Thiebaud has created beauty from the ordinary, something many great artists have in common.  The whimsical color choices and unique qualities of his work always inspire me.  For a recent drawing class assignment we were asked to set up a few man-made objects of interest next to a lamp and make record of shifts in value (shade).  I am very green when it comes to both working with charcoal, and attempting to make something look three-dimensional on a 2D surface so I can see hours of practice in my future.  For my first attempt, however, I was inspired by this

{eight lipsticks}

And ended up with this

In comparison to the rest of my class I have a lot to learn in terms of value scale since I somehow completely eliminated anything upwards of 50% saturation (all gray no black) but I kind of prefer a softer look to my drawings anyway.  Oh yeah, I know what everyone else's homework looks like because each week we are forced to display them on the wall for a group critique session. 

 It's exactly what it sounds like.

xoxo,

-C

  

p.s. A lot of the group commentary is actually positive, mostly because people don't want to risk not being bffs by slamming your crappy art.  I really try to learn from the classmate critiques though.  For example, "this drawing doesn't have any space for me to move around in".  Noted sir, noted.  I'll work on that...