Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Drawing with Edna





Untitled Drawing, 29" x 23" (74cm x 58cm), charcoal, black pastel on toned Strathmore rag 2 ply Bristol




Untitled Drawing, 29" x 23" (74cm x 58cm), charcoal, black pastel on toned Strathmore rag 2 ply Bristol
Edna and I got together last Friday afternoon, October 26, to draw some more. Cathy, my wife, particularly liked the top drawing. We're still working on the toned ground. Edna and I only worked in the afternoon last Friday. I had spent the morning drawing from the model. Interestingly enough, I found that the two and half hours I drew from the model in no way helped me or "warmed me up" for the afternoon. This is the first time we did not spend the morning playing around with drawing. I understand now that this is the time we work out the images that appear in the afternoon. Each of us has a dozen or so old "morning" drawings tacked to our studio walls, but these drawings are "cold." In the morning following our usual routine, we may take some of the "cold" images and "warm" them up or work up some new imagery for the afternoon, when we work to get the finished drawings. Those warmed up images were missing Friday afternoon. That made the drawing more difficult.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Tall Chest of Drawers Update





Seven Drawer Chest, 57" x 27" x 18" (145cm x 69cm x 46cm), maple, poplar
I finished the side panels this morning. Here they are in a dry (glueless) assembly. Everything is fitting together very well.

An artless week. No new drawings this week. Edna has a cold today. No working from the model tomorrow. Randy Cooper's [http://www.randycooperart.com/] studio couldn't find a model to schedule.


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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Tall Chest of Drawers Update





Seven Drawer Chest, 57" x 27" x 189" (145cm x 69cm x 46cm), maple
I have finished the basic structure for the chest.  Here I have put it together "dry," not glued yet. There are 20 mortise and tenon joints. I have already grooved the sides to receive the four panels, two on each side. Next I will add the grooves to the styles to receive the web frames and rabit the back to receive the plywood back.

In this month's, November 2007, Elledecor on page 132, there is a brief article on the semainier, the tall narrow seven drawer chest, with photos of ten examples in various styles. I have also found an example of a Frank Llyod Wright designed semainier. Semainier comes from the French word for week, semaine. This type of chest first appeared in 18th century France for storing the week's linens. At any rate, calling a piece of furniture a semainier is so much more elegant than calling it a seven drawer chest. Thank you France.
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