12/3/2023 0 Comments Skull and bones drawing![]() ![]() One of my favorite things that I did with the lesson is the coloring. I think this new drawing came out looking pretty sweet, which means you guys will love learning from it. I guess you could say the sketch is easier to tackle than the old one. Instead I will teach you " how to draw skull and crossbones", with a new design. I didn't want to redo the old tutorial because it is still a very popular lesson that folks come here to learn from. I figured it was time for an upgrade, or at least an updated version. If you look in the top 50, you will see that number 40 is a skull design I drew back in 2008. I thought I would start the day by submitting a lesson that is awesome, and fun to draw. All the little kids where toasting marshmallows over the flames, as the adults sat there and watched while talking and listening to music. We had a party yesterday with a nice big old fashioned campfire. I say this because, if you are one of those people that celebrates Memorial Day, you must be partying all weekend. The sky is different, the stars are different, the wind is different.What an awesome day it's going to be today. Like something that’s in the air-it’s just different. I’d never seen anything like it before but it fitted to me exactly. Georgia O'Keeffe: When I got to New Mexico that was mine. Narrator: O’Keeffe, who began her career in New York, eventually began living in the American Southwest in 1929. And I have enjoyed them very much in relation to the sky. It never occurs to me they have anything to do with death. Georgia O'Keeffe: The bones do not symbolize death to me. ![]() Walking in the desert, she collected bones that had been bleached by the New Mexico sun. To her, they were simple records of what she saw around her. The artist, Georgia O’Keeffe, didn’t like to explain her paintings. Narrator: Like a mirage, a deer skull hovers in the sky above wild flowers. It lives in soul, spirit, in our minds, and in our memories, instead of living through flesh and blood. It's part of a big soul of the desert of New Mexico. Student: This skull has a huge soul, as a huge representation. She said that sometimes the bones were strangely more living than the animals walking around. Not only would she collect flowers, she would also collect bones and skulls. She loved the landscape in New Mexico, and would collect things when she was out there. She lived here in New York, but she traveled to New Mexico every summer. Melanie Adsit: I love the way that you guys are talking about this, in terms of symbols of life and death. Even in the barrenness of desert, there’s always life. ![]() The flowers are rest in peace and there's always hope. It represents the hardness, the challenging, the viciousness of where they live, or what's around them. It's really high rocks, or small mountains, or jagged hills. The skull is like in the sky, which means they passed away. Student: This is a place of mountains and desert. Melanie Adsit: What symbols do we see in this painting? What do you think they might represent? It could be anything, as long as it represents someone, some place, something, some idea, an image. Student: I think it's a portrait because a portrait doesn't have to be, actually accurate. Melanie Adsit: This is a very different kind of portrait than the portraits we've been looking at, so far. The mountains appear to be far in the distance, occupying only a few inches of the lower register of the painting. The undulating landscape, painted in a range of earthly orange hues, stretches across the bottom of the composition from left to right. It is only in the bottom fifth of the canvas, beneath the flowers, that blue sky starts to peek through the clouds, just above the mountains. The skull and the flowers appear to rest weightlessly atop the clouds, which are rendered in a soft white tinged with subtle greys and fill the composition from left to right. A red bloom floats on the clouds beneath the skull, and two pink and two yellow flowers stretch diagonally up toward the right, with the upper petals of the topmost yellow blossom at the same height as the skull’s nose. The skull is centered on the work’s vertical axis and stretches from the top edge of the canvas, which is grazed by the tip of its left antler, to just below the middle of the composition.Ī few inches below the hollow nasal passage of the skull, there is a loosely arranged bouquet of five flowers. O’Keeffe paid particular attention to anatomical detail, such as eye sockets, ridges along the snout, and a fissure that runs from above the eyes to the nasal cavity, emphasizing the form’s symmetry. The head is tilted forward - so that the viewer sees its top-and is painted in creamy white and beige tones. ![]() A nearly life-sized skull dominates the work. ![]()
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