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DC Sketchers met at the National Gallery of Art for the fourth and final session of their Winter Workshop. We began with a warm-up in the beautiful Rotunda. Mercury was circled with Valentine's Day themed flowers and plants. Looked like an FTD ad.
The class revisited Exercise 3 from Ruskin's The Elements of Drawing: creating an tonal gradation from light to dark with cross-hatching or a continuous tone.
We then went to the cafeteria and claimed one of the tables and set up a still life of styrofoam cups - illuminated by the directional light of the window with the cascading fountain. We observed the tonal gradations in the smoothly curved forms of the cups - including cast and attached shadows.
![group](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5059/5421085023_c8300b4f06_z.jpg)
![studentcup](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5299/5421693322_19e3ee9e14.jpg)
![studentcups](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5013/5421693688_c8b60f6b43.jpg)
Teaching artist, Kent Gay, also tried his hand at the day's exercise - below.
![kentcups](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5256/5421693438_28dfa45885.jpg)
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