Katie - Half-Proof White Face on Black Paper Shape Exercise

White Pastel on Black Canson Paper 14 x 11 inches Available, unframed Katie - Half Proof Portrait © 2008-2010 Kelly Borsheim     I never can answer the question "How long did it take you to do this?" But I suppose I can say that technically speaking (if you do not count years of training and drawing), this next work took me two years - to the date even.     On December 1, 2008, I did some "negative shape" drawing exercises from a model named Katie in Florence, Italy. Now, once the drawing is done, you may not be able to tell that I created it by drawing only the dark shapes, relating each non-touching dark shape to the next dark shape. But this is a very powerful exercise that helps me refine my observation and recording of shapes. Original sketch 1 December 2008; Pastel art finished on 1 Dec 2010       I usually create these studies with pencil on drawing paper. In the image above, you can see that I did another drawing on the same sheet of paper, but in a different direction sin