Sadie Valeri Atelier | Oil Painting, Art Classes, Instructional Videos

I’ve just completed a new FREE video showing how I start a new drawing using Straight Line Block-In. My husband Nowell composed the soundtrack and did all the editing and production:

This is the exercise I give my students:

Set up a brown paper bag, crumpled and twisted gently. Include a single egg.
Draw only STRAIGHT LINES and NO SHADING.
Work small, just 4-5 inches across per drawing, and put in mainly just the longest, most major lines and only a few secondary lines - just until it starts looking like the shape and gesture of the bag. Spend no more than 30 minutes on a drawing.
Turn the bag and move the egg to make a new composition and start another drawing.
I am working large with heavy, dark lines so the camera can record the drawing. You should work SMALL and with VERY LIGHT LINES

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