{"id":1868,"date":"2025-01-12T14:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2025-01-12T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:38:11","slug":"mastering-composition-class-by-ian-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/mastering-composition-class-by-ian-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering Composition &#8211; Class by Ian Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I enrolled in a composition class taught by Ian Roberts.  All of our exercises were about 4&#215;6&#8243; and done on smooth bristol with a pencil.  I haven&#8217;t used just pencils for quite a while, and never exactly like this so there was a fairly steep learning curve just for me to be able to feel like I could make effective marks on the page.  Luckily he seemed aware of this and the earliest exercises were all about making smooth shapes and gradients before we ever tried to really draw anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The class was self-paced, but there are advantages to keeping up in that you can expect better feedback from your &#8216;buddy&#8217; &#8211; the other students in the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note &#8211; I wrote this post LAST YEAR and then left it sitting in drafts for 10 months.  I&#8217;m going to try to get caught up to current day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1025\" data-id=\"1872\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Imports-2-of-42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1872\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">starting with simple shapes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"863\" data-id=\"1912\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Imports-3-of-42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1912\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">simple shapes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"1907\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Imports-8-of-42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1907\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">finding a focal point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1247\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"1873\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Imports-42-of-42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1873\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Still life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"1904\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Imports-11-of-42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1904\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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class=\"wp-image-1881\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Berm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"1886\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Imports-29-of-42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1886\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Orcas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1011\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"1877\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Imports-38-of-42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1877\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1093\" data-id=\"1876\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Imports-39-of-42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" 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All of our exercises were about 4&#215;6&#8243; and done on smooth bristol with a pencil. I haven&#8217;t used just pencils for quite a while, and never exactly like this so there was a fairly steep learning curve just for me to be able to feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,229],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A0tE-u8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}