Neutral Still life

    During this assignment I found that wrapping my mind around the concept was difficult for me. We were to use a middle value ground and in using our eraser, draw out what we saw in the still life. The concept behind this lesson was learning how to take a neutral space and change the value to form works of art. We were able to practice value differentiation and how to change the value in certain areas. The eraser would make the shade lighter while the use of our pencil could make the negative space and shadows darker. I did not really grasp the idea till we got to our second assignment which is very close to this one. What I did like was learning how to take a darker background and using it to draw in lighter objects. Also, using the chalk allows you to add extra contour to the drawing itself and to help with the shape of the objects against the light source.