ZigOtto wrote:pretty nice collaborative work !
keep it up ...
and as Eric above, I'm curious about how is working your "several hands" project,
can you tell us a little more about it ?
Eric and zigotto,
These were two seperate assignments in an Advanced Drawing class I am taking:
First we were to create 20 thumbs, for idea generation.
Then, for
each of the two assignments, we each began a drawing.
Then passed it across the room, to a student who put their own style, subject matter and choice of medium into the drawing.
Then it was passed again, to a third student, who then continued in their style and choice of medium and subject.
The third, and final pass ended with two seperate results:
On assignment #1, the final work was done on
our original drawing.
Assignment #2, the final work was done on someone else's drawing.
In the case of the Birches, #1, I originated it, drawing the trees and landscape in graphite: then, D.Moore put in the red and blue and yellow sky in NuPastel; then another student put a big, black hole in the front birch(!); at which point the drawing came back to me and I finished drawing the picture using india ink, coloring with NuPastel, and some more graphite.
In the case of the Turkey Vulture, #2, I ended up with L. Chance's drawing, who had started with the chimney. I finished it by drawing the bird and all the rest in graphite and worked into that with water-color pencils, gesso, more graphite and a bit of Dr.pH Martin's Ink.
At each stage, we were to think of the drawing as "ours" no matter whether it was going on to someone else, or not.
I think this was a great exercise, good practice for real-work collaboration, and ideas, and a lot of fun.
Thanks for asking!
Kathleen
) artist, I guess! So if what it taught me was the coalescence of these thoughts, then it was a well-taught moment. 
