At the moment my concentration is Drawing and the only "upper level" courses I've had for drawing are this one and drawing two if that counts. My pastel work in drawing two turned out ok, though I still would like to keep working on color use because I feel I still have more to learn. My first piece, the pastel still life project, doesn't have much self expression because it was purely an exercise working with color.
The project with the pine tree we had more freedom. We had to choose one subject and take pictures of it in warm and cool lighting, then use toned p
aper 
to recreate the photo. I picked a pine tree because of its innately cool color. I wanted to explore how to make the colors warm without making it unrealistic. It was more difficult than I had expected and turned out to be a patience tester, but also a learning experience.My life drawing one piece was done near the end of the semester. I see the progress made in my figures and am shocked. When I started life drawing one I would have struggled for hours on perspective and understanding proportion. In this drawing there are few
erase lines and I'm happy with the confidence in the lines.
