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ART
LESSONS
(To help you
decide to
join the
Interactive Art School's full
6 Lesson,
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6 Critique
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Art Course,
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Art Lessons
-ENJOY!)

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•The teacher           
•Course Philosophy
•Contact Us
•Our Promises

Skills You Need
•Your Art &
  Computer Skills

The Course
•Course Outline 
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On-the-WEB lesson 
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FREE Mini
Art Lesson 9

Using Ovals to Create Drawings and other Tools of the Trade

To draw or paint natural objects - faces, trees, apples, etc. you need to understand their underlying structures:  spheres, cylinders.

(Review the Forms Mini Lessons 2 and 3 to see how forms underly objects)
FREE Art Lesson 2: An introduction to FORM in painting
FREE Art Lesson 3: A more advanced FORM lesson)

Key to drawing those underlying forms are OVALS:

A Primer in Using Ovals

Below, I show you step by step how to apply the above
to the cylinder in your drawing.

DRAWING WITH TOOLS,
AN OPTION:
Regarding using or not using tools to draw- there are artists on both sides of the issue. As to ovals. I draw mine by hand and I use a triangle for my straight lines (some artists use a ruler instead of a triangle) - a good buddy of mine draws his straight lines and uses an oval template (shown below) for his ovals. To read more on the use of tools and other devices to make pictures, look at FREE LESSON on using a camera as a research tool (like Jan VerMeer and other great artists) AND in some cases a TRACING tool (like Leonardo DaVinci used a sheet of glass between two easels to trace landscapes).


© 2007 Barry Waldman