When thinking of creating something, the first step is to make sketches, right? Well, that’s a process we painting students (generally; I specifically at the Art University in Timisoara, Romania)  have to follow too. For this semester’s drawing class, we had to study, sketch, compose, interpret and draw this still life composed of dynamic elements that don’t seem to have anything in commune. But looking at the installation that our teacher created for us, from a compositional point of view, it works! It’s dynamic, equilibrated, interesting, is does capture your attention, right? First, we had to do lots of sketches in ink and charcoal (you can see some of them in a collage, by reading the full post), then we had to photograph the installation and work with the images on the computer, making it black and white and increasing the contrast, to create almost abstract shapes (second collage from top). It amazed me what great compositional dimensions one image could/can have.

Last, but most importantly, we had to draw our own interpretation of the still life/installation. Mine turned out Ok, I guess (I got a 9 out of 10 on the study and 10 out of 10 on the sketches; parents, happy now?), the problem was with the shadows of the umbrella, for some reason I struggled at interpreting them. Umbrella ella ella eh eh e…

Click to read the full post to see my initial sketches.