Comments on: Warm Up With A Blind Contour Drawing https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/03/warm-up-with-a-blind-contour-drawing/ Info, opinion, and training on how to pastel with artist Gail Sibley BFA, MA Sat, 30 Mar 2024 05:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/03/warm-up-with-a-blind-contour-drawing/#comment-57431 Sat, 30 Mar 2024 05:43:08 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=29718#comment-57431 Debbie thanks for sharing this super story of your first encounter with a blind contour drawing! It sounds like you had a fabulous teacher. I’m now curious about what other tasks you were set!

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/03/warm-up-with-a-blind-contour-drawing/#comment-57237 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 03:52:13 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=29718#comment-57237 In reply to Kerrie.

Yes!! I’ve just finished two back-to-back five day workshops in mainland Australia – Gold Coast and Melbourne – and now about to start a 10-day Art Retreat in Tassie. I’m sorry you missed seeing the listings in my emails Kerrie. It would have been lovely to meet you! I’m hoping to get back in a couple years or so!

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/03/warm-up-with-a-blind-contour-drawing/#comment-57236 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 03:50:15 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=29718#comment-57236 In reply to Susan.

Good for you sketching so regularly Susan!! And yes, this is such a fun way to interpret and see and yes, it’s sooooo freeing!!!

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/03/warm-up-with-a-blind-contour-drawing/#comment-57235 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 03:49:16 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=29718#comment-57235 Go, go GO! Keep doing it as a warm up before painting - it's such a great way to get in the "zone." I do hope I see you at my workshop in 2025 - I'll look forward to seeing the result of your painting :-D]]> In reply to Lynn Carr-Woodward.

That’s AWESOME Lynn! I love that doing the drawing you did, from the photo, blind, has given you some drawing confidence. 🎉 Go, go GO!
Keep doing it as a warm up before painting – it’s such a great way to get in the “zone.”
I do hope I see you at my workshop in 2025 – I’ll look forward to seeing the result of your painting 😀

]]> By: Kerrie https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/03/warm-up-with-a-blind-contour-drawing/#comment-57230 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 18:26:35 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=29718#comment-57230 Gail, you’re in australia! I loved your course I did online and would love to meet you in person and do a workshop. I’m guessing your australia trip is all planned and booked up? Which areas are you going to and will you be back?
Kerrie

]]> By: Susan https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/03/warm-up-with-a-blind-contour-drawing/#comment-57227 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:48:40 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=29718#comment-57227 Thank you for sharing your expertise. LOVED this blind contour exercise. I do a sketch every morning (well, most mornings) and one each evening. I will definitely add this to my repertoire of prompts. So freeing and no expectations with this exercise.

]]> By: Lynn Carr-Woodward https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/03/warm-up-with-a-blind-contour-drawing/#comment-57220 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 06:22:07 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=29718#comment-57220 Hi Gail – I had a go at drawing blind, perhaps in a slightly different way . . . I’ve been hesitating to sketch and paint a large size landscape photo that I took while on holiday in NZ way back in 2019 (precious memories). I’m very raw at sketching and I’m an amateur artist.
I had a go at looking at the photo, put pen to paper and without looking at the paper, sketched what my ‘minds eye’ could see in the photo. The result . . . it has given me the confidence to overcome my hesitations and I plan to make a start on the long-awaited painting ‘Alone on the Beach’.
Hope that all makes sense and thank you for your inspiration. I’m hoping to meet you in France in 2025 and maybe if I make it I’ll bring the end result of this painting along with me!

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