Students spent several sessions practicing and working through the process of blind contour exercises. We then used wire as our drawn line, recreating our drawn 2-D works into 3-D objects – exploring the quality of their drawn line along with the space that the object now takes up. The images shown here represent a blind contour drawing done of another student, and the wire rendering of that drawing – in 3-D space.
This project is exciting on a number of levels. I am most interested in opening the students’ eyes to deeper perception and observation as daily practice. One beautiful discovery was the students recognizing the shadows that their wire sculptures cast – essentially completing the circle of 2-D drawing to 3-D object, back to 2-D drawing!
Tags: blind contour drawing, LNAC, sculpture
