The Bird Nest Drawings have become an important and pivotal part of the Drawing 1 class since it increases your awareness of texture, line, value, composition, scale and volume/spatial qualities found in drawing. Use of conte is examined as well as using reversal drawing techniques (white conte on black paper).
Self discovery of new mark-making is always successful at this point during the semester.
I know the birds who built these little beauties would be happy to see you drawing them as art...after all, each bird nest is unique to the individual birds who built it and their lives which ensued. Time spent searching for the right twig or item to build their nests and then to hatch baby birds and teach them to fly. These nests are equivalent to your house, apartment, condo or loft. It is unique. Your drawings are artifacts of the birds time on this earth.
Please try to use a variety of media in drawing these.
You will need to create two bird nest drawings: One drawing that is created using black media on white paper and the second drawing will be created using white media on black paper.
The images below are from a previous drawing class in the summer of 2010 and 2009.
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