April 2, 2020
On & Beyond the Chair class continues with students at home drawing by hand, while sharing their individual explorations through this blog. Every day, for 10 minutes, students have been “taking a line for a walk” around their chairs.
Students finished their first week of work building a collection of 8″ x 11″ drawings with a great sense of discovery.
March 31, 2020
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.”
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.
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.
March 27, 2020
On and Beyond the Chair continues while students draw remotely in this new virtual learning version of the chair class.
Today the students begin a new fun and relaxing daily exercise “taking a line for a walk around their chair.” For the next two weeks students will spend only ten minutes each day drawing with a pen on a 8″ x 11″ sheet of paper.
A line is a dot that went for a walk. – Paul Klee
The assignment encourages students 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. These drawings will also become a diary of reflections during this emotional time of social distancing.
