{"id":27,"date":"2007-12-19T10:58:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/19\/paper-bags\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T17:46:14","slug":"paper-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/paper-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brown Kraft paper bags are a wonderful subject for learning to draw. They don&#8217;t move like people do. They don&#8217;t wiggle or whine. They don&#8217;t go rotten and deteriorate like fruits and vegetables. They&#8217;re cheap and easy to find. Not only can you pack lunch into the smaller bags you can bring home your food shopping in the larger ones and as an extra bonus, you can then use them to take out the garbage.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 442px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-411\" title=\"1976-03-21-lunch-bags1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-03-21-lunch-bags1.jpg\" alt=\"Kraft lunch bags - wash drawing\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-03-21-lunch-bags1.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-03-21-lunch-bags1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Brown Kraft bags &#8211; wash drawing<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h4>\n<p>Need I mention that when I was in school, we cut down the large grocery bags and used them as book covers to protect the textbooks that the public school system in New York City provided to us on loan. So versatile, so useful, so filled with nooks and crannies they make for a great student model.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 442px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-412\" title=\"1976-03-28-lunch-bags21\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-03-28-lunch-bags21.jpg\" alt=\"Brown lunch bags\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-03-28-lunch-bags21.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-03-28-lunch-bags21-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Brown lunch bag drawing\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h4>\n<p>These 4 drawings of paper bags were done while I was in the second semester of my Freshman year in the <strong>Fine Arts Program<\/strong> at <strong>York College, CUNY in Queens NY<\/strong>. They were done during a two-week period from 3\/21\/1976 through 3\/4\/1976. All the dates of the drawings are noted at the bottom of each piece. I&#8217;m very glad that I was prescient enough to not only keep my student works but also to have dated them so that I could, 30 years later, look back on them and study the progression of my classes.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 442px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-413\" title=\"1976-04-04-lunchbags3-wash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-04-04-lunchbags3-wash.jpg\" alt=\"Brown bag wash drawing\" width=\"432\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-04-04-lunchbags3-wash.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-04-04-lunchbags3-wash-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Brown bag wash drawing<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h4>\n<p>At the time of these drawings I had been paying attention to art for only 2 years since I had spent my Junior and Senior High School years immersed in music. I came late to art but at the time of this writing in 2007, I&#8217;ve been an active artist for over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>The mediums I was experimenting with in these drawings are plain pencil, pencil and wash and Conte crayon. I seem to be able to create volume using contrast in these pieces but I haven&#8217;t set each of the still lives up with a particular light source that is consistent throughout each piece.<\/p>\n<p>The composition of each work is fairly good in relation to the page and utilizes the scale properly except perhaps the last piece. I believe the drawing would have been better served had the paper been turned horizontally.<\/p>\n<p>Too late to fix the original now but as I would say in this day and age: &#8220;I&#8217;ll fix it in <strong>Photoshop<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 442px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-414\" title=\"1976-04-01-lunch-bag-folded-top1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-04-01-lunch-bag-folded-top1.jpg\" alt=\"Folded brown garbage bag drawing\" width=\"432\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-04-01-lunch-bag-folded-top1.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/1976-04-01-lunch-bag-folded-top1-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Folded brown garbage bag drawing<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown Kraft paper bags are a wonderful subject for learning to draw. They don&#8217;t move like people do. They don&#8217;t wiggle or whine. They don&#8217;t go rotten and deteriorate like fruits and vegetables. They&#8217;re cheap and easy to find. 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