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© Kristina Gehrmann
Month: May 2009
Medium: Nitram charcoal on Umbria paper
Yes, it’s a drawing. We do these at Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy; an art school that teaches the classical-academic method like French art schools in the 19th century. The procedure is to copy a plaster cast as closely as possible, using the sight-size method. It’s not “art” per se, but an exercise in drawing; and the point of this exercise was to learn how to see. (For the better an artist can see, the easier it will be for them to interpret (not copy) a subject later, in their very own manner and style; and that’s what I’m aiming for.)