And here's the absolute final piece on this one as I turned it in. 

Well I pretty much finished this up in class on Wednesday. It was a lot tougher than I thought it would be but it start to get easier as I went. 

Here's the second week of drawing the arrows. I got the first one finished and started the second one by folding the paper. The next one will be another fold. 

Here's the main pic I worked on. 

Howdy, I went to life drawing last night for the first time since summer. I was definitely rusty. Here's some gestures that I started with. 

OK, here's where Im at so far with the 1st arrow. I still have to blend in the white a lot more and add the purple colored pencil. I should have at least the first folded paper done too by the end of tonite's class. 

Here's the latest in class assignment. We had to draw an arrow on a white piece of paper. We have to draw the paper/arrow on matching Canson paper (the green one) in white and black charcoal and colored pencil then fold the paper and do it again, then fold it again draw the 2 folds. Sounds odd but I'll have more pics as I go. It's pretty tough just getting the right perspective. 

Its almost done. I will fine tune it at Mondays class but this is pretty close. 

I just got done reading a book that was on the teachers recommended reading list. It was very cool and explored the understanding of drawing for the sake of seeing the world around us. This is a difficult thing to conceptualize sometimes but I felt Franck did a great job of it. Franck describes a life of wonder and 'seeing' as cataloged in the drawings that appear througout the book. He depicts life of Kyoto, Prague, Rome and NY in his sketches but the underlying tone is in drawing to draw / see. He also parallels drawing to the art of the haiku which also serves as an active observation to life adn the world around us. My favorite quote from this book is a haiku by Angelus Silesius: The rose is without why it blossoms because it blossoms