Jocelyn Curry

Life events interrupt our drawing group now and then, but we happily convened in June to resume our exercises. If this sounds academic, please remember that the exercises are accompanied by tea, coffee, cookies, or scones, or rhubarb crumble…and the pleasant catching up with one another's full lives. Not unlike a quilting group, we come together to, well, enjoy more than the sketching practice.

This time, we tested our perception and grappled with light, dark, and those sly 3-D challenges:

For each of us, being at different seats at the table, the perspective view of the blocks differed. Below is a snapshot of our sketches. We often select contrasting drawing tools to render the same image. Here, one used graphite pencil to render a few of the blocks, one used tech pen (stippling, or dots), and mine was done with gel pen and watercolor wash.