{"id":42975,"date":"2020-11-14T16:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=42975"},"modified":"2020-11-15T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T18:27:53","slug":"another-lesson-in-the-art-of-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/11\/another-lesson-in-the-art-of-drawing.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Lesson in the Art of Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’ve been following Am\u00e9lie, a talented, 14-year-old student artist whose drawing has shown impressive skill. The last time she was asked to copy a sketch by Daumier<\/a>. The point of that exercise was to shape the forms through the tonal value of the lines rather than outlining them with a fixed line. The idea was to develop the contours of the forms through the process of drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drawing of a fern.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This time she was asked to draw an object as part of a study of natural forms. The assignment let her find her own way without any instruction. She drew the skull and teeth from her grandfather’s collection of bones, and also a torn fern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Skull and teeth.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been following Am\u00e9lie, a talented, 14-year-old student artist whose drawing has shown impressive skill. The last time she was asked to copy a sketch by Daumier. The point of that exercise was to shape the forms through the tonal value of the lines rather than outlining them with a fixed line. The idea was to develop the contours of the forms through the process of drawing. This time she was asked to draw an object as part of a study of natural forms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-main","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/amelies-leaf-brdr.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-bb9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43040,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42975\/revisions\/43040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}