Abstraction in Art and Nature by Nathan Cabot Hale

Author:Nathan Cabot Hale
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486142302
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Project: Here is your chance to make creative use of the grid patterns in the drawing of imaginary fish. You need pencil and paper.

You can use either photographs or real fish as reference to make drawings. Make these drawings within a grid pattern. When you have completed your original drawings, draw some new gridworks that distort the original shapes. You do this by expanding the center or the head or tail sections. Next transfer the lines of your originals to the new gridwork by placing the lines in the proper squares. Once you have practiced transferring the lines, you can easily invent new fish forms. The use of the grid helps you get an idea of how proportions actually evolve. Once you grasp this idea, it is not very difficult to draw your inventions freehand.

Make some drawings of aquarium fish. Looking at the fish will give you a fine opportunity to observe their living movements. The major line to capture is the curve of the spine. The fish’s body moves from side to side in wavelike movements. The motion of the body in swimming is echoed in the fin movements, the pectoral and ventral fins being held close to the body, as the fish darts forward. The ancient Japanese were the world’s best draftsmen of fish in movement and form. Go to your local library and look at books of Japanese paintings and drawings and notice how they capture the forms with the fewest simple lines.

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