Good morning, and thank you all who responded to my previous post and email regarding the now online exhibition of Spoons at Tacit Gallery. If you have the chance, please 'like' me on the Tacit Facebook or Instagram pages for this exhibition.
...getting back to White on White, KM has sent me a very nice drawing of a Lily. I am in a bit of a quandary over this work, because I really love it ... but ... it doesn't quite follow the brief as explained in the original post. The request was to use the background dark to assist in creating the white shape of the subject, as stated: 'the technique of using the darks surrounding an object to define the shape.'
KM has instead used an outline technique with minimal tone and no dark background at all! So not quite as the challenge requested, but DARN IT, it is such a good drawing I have to show it anyway. The lily she has drawn has an elegant shape, with free flowing and expressive lines. The linework uses thicks and thins in almost an ink-like way from dark tones fading to lights. This has created a beautiful, somewhat sensual drawing of the subject. So while KM has deviated from the original brief I still want to congratulate her on a lovely work.
Sometimes as an artist is pays to work to your strengths!
'Calla Lily' by KM
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