Cindy Wider   Comment Posted Mar.17th, 2010, viewed 5 times

Sounds so beautiful Jana, thanks for sharing such a great description of your holiday with us. Nature is the most healing of all things isn't it.

As for the final project; just a quick note to you all - it is important that you understand this final project is especially designed to build valuable pathways in your brain for being able to see, compare and draw many complex curves and angles. There are long slow curves around the leaves, sharp fast curves in the flowers and many diagonal in the veins of the leaves. Draw carefully and slowly. You can draw the large outer shape of all the leaves first by travelling from square to square then fill in the veins later. Draw the image in several sittings of two hours each. It should take you about 12 to 16 hours depending on where you are up to with your drawing skills. This is a two-week project so if you put in three or four 2hour sittings a week you will do it in two weeks, otherwise break it down further and take three weeks to do the drawing. you will find it easier if you draw for about one or two hours at your very first sitting - setting up the grid etc and just getting started on the leaves, then consider leaving the image for about 24 hours then go again. Sometimes its good to leave 24 hours in between having a go at difficult tasks, this isn't difficult because you have all already done what is needed here, you are just doing a lot more of what you did in week one and week 4. If you halve all four sides of the little squares you will find it easier. Cheers all! After you have done this you should be able to draw most things with extreme accuracy using the grid method as a professional tool.