my drawing students have been struggling with proportion. they have so much trouble seeing the relationships between objects. when i point out the comparisons to them they see it but they have trouble seeing the big picture. it's like they can only focus on one small part at a time. the big problem with this is that when they spend hours on their drawing and only later realize that they have to change something from back at the beginning they get frustrated to the point of giving up.
so i decided to spend another monday on this. in addition, i built a still life that i thought would allow them to put all their energies into the subject of proportion. i built something relatively flat and with objects of widely varying sizes. i intentionally put more than one of the same object but not in the same place so they could use it as a measuring tool. i overlapped things carefully using things like the tambourine as a target.
we reviewed using the pencil as a measuring tool and i told them to go ahead and write their realizations right on the paper they were drawing on. this seemed to help them. many of them started to get the idea of seeing the whole and then the parts. my hope is that they'll now be able to apply what they've learned to lager more involved projects.
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