Posts Tagged ‘edges’

Edges: last Friday’s class and, in particular, some thoughts on combining edges and cross contour lines

May 2, 2012

  Last Friday’s “What to do about edges” class It turns out that there is no single best approach for drawing edges, rather many possible ways of working. In the class, each artist took a picture by a “great master”, from Leonardo da Vinci to Henry Moore, discussed how edges had been tackled in that […]

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What is the problem with edges?

April 24, 2012

  I’m referring here to the physical boundaries of an object, the “edge” or “contour” of the object between itself and its background. Edges also occur wherever there is a sharp change in plane within a form, even if this would not show up in a silhouette drawing, e.g. the edge of a windowsill, a […]

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