In 1968 I was a senior art student at Wayne State University in Detroit. Don’t remember why I did this drawing combining a skeleton and a coat of armor from the Detroit Institute of Art. The other two sketches are of a student posing with the skeleton.
I think the armour came a little late for its wearer in this case! A unique offering for the prompt this week I’m sure Kristin and how brave of the student to pose with a skeleton.
The skeleton was like part of the class. He was always standing there in the corner. Not scary.
Wonderful drawings. Not only were the bones salvagedbut immortalized on your page.
Armor and Skeletons are a perfect combo — isn’t armor structured like a skeleton? An external skeleton? Anyway, I’m impressed.
I guess it is sort of like those bugs with the Exoskeleton.
I am always amazed how people interpret the theme so differently and imaginatively. Thank you for sharing your drawings.
I admire your ability to draw so close to reality. I never got any further than a rudimentary scarecrow…
Well, my major was drawing and printmaking. By this time I’d been taking drawing classes for several years. That sure improved my drawing.
Terrific and original.
Oh my gosh, what wonderful drawings! How they just work so well with this week’s theme too! I have to say your photo for your blog is totally wonderful! Such a cool tree lined street and all those exceptional old cars on display!
That heading is in preparation for my post O is for Oregon St. I hope it’s ready today.
There was a skeleton in the art room when I took courses at a community college a few years ago. I never drew it, but I did photograph it because I was thinking of doing a painting of it later.
I wish I’d taken photos of the art dept and rooms I had classes in but, alas, I was not thinking ahead.
Beautiful drawings, Kristin, and they fit the theme perfectly 🙂
I especially love the skeleton and armor drawing. You have so many talents. Beautiful!
What cool drawings! My son is finishing year 6 of a 4 year art & design degree, and did some life drawing but today his work and those of most design students is on a computer. Not much school expense for paper but instead for laser printing.
I suppose even drawing students do computer work now. That was way after my time. I can think of only one computer drawing I did in the 1990s.
Looks like our story lines ran along the same lines except I did not draw the ones I wrote about.
Great work.
QMM
You are lucky to have your drawings. You should frame them they are wonderful and interesting.
I should frame some of them.
I am always envious of anyone who has the talent to draw like this. Great drawings Kirstin.
A wonderfully imaginative interpretation of the these by some wonderfully imaginative drawings. You are a very talented person.
The perspective in these drawings is so true. Do you still draw? You are a wonderful artist! I would love to see more of your work.
I hardly ever draw. I keep saying I’m going to but I don’t. Sometimes I do prints. I should do more of that too. I was getting back into it when I discovered blogging and I have a difficult time focusing on more than one thing at a time. I am taking a silk screen workshop this fall that will let me learn the new methods of using photographs in silk screen prints. I also have a very small press at home that I can do prints on and I have a project I said I was going to do. I will post when I get something done.
Ingenious spin on the theme!!
My gestual was mostly spontaneous, rarely anatomically correct,
usually looking for an impression of mass and movement or mood rather than
exactitude. I liked those 15 seconds sketches. But I command you on your detailed work here. I wonder too why the helmet…
Is there a shrink in the house!!!
😉
HUGZ
I think I just liked looking at the knights armor in the Detroit Art Institute which was right on campus and free at the time. I had not done any drawings where I put things together so I was searching for two things to put together. There may be some hidden meaning though…
Like engaging yourself socio-politically?
War is not just about guns and bones,
but also ideas and ideals.
Me thinks you were ready to fight for what’s right.
And it transcended your art.
🙂
HUGZ