On & Beyond the Chair class continues with students at home drawing by hand, while sharing their individual explorations through this blog. Learning from each other has been a significant part of students’ experience inside Chantilly House, our beautiful studio space located in the heart of Newbern.

In the last few days students have been working on a collection of 8″ x 11″ drawings: a fun and relaxing ten-minute long, daily exercise “taking a line for a walk around their chair.” 

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Students have been asked to quickly look, draw, look, draw, look, draw. The assignment encourages them to make quick decisions while continuously drawing a line. They must keep as small an interval as possible between drawing and looking at the chair. 

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When the time spent by the hand wondering is longer than the time spent by the eye looking, the drawing become more abstract than descriptive.

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