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Assignment 3: Waterloo Sunset

After doing this drawing I realise how short a two hour period can be. This piece requires further work but as the assignment was to work no more than two hours on the finished piece I felt I could blog it after that time had lapsed. However, I shall work on it some more tomorrowContinue reading “Assignment 3: Waterloo Sunset”

Assignment 3: More Preparation

I haven’t blogged in so long I have almost forgotten how. Almost, but not quite. .. as simplified from the following… I changed my mind about the subject for assignment 3. I decided to save the “Lovers Entwined” for the next unit in the module to do with figurative work. Instead I noticed this chanceContinue reading “Assignment 3: More Preparation”

Assignment 3: Preparation

I did these two sketches today. I like the potential of contrasting colour and light effect between the front of the West facing houses on the right to the dark purple/grey foreboding of the sky. Both drawings are in my sketchbook, which is – somewhat awkwardly – square rather than “A” series aspect ratio. ThisContinue reading “Assignment 3: Preparation”

Summary: Tutor Feedback from Assignment 2

I received positive comments on this blog having successfully transferred from weebly.com to wordpress.com which is more easily navigable. Positive feedback on my potential for further development as well as the likelihood of passing the end of course assignment should this potential be realised. In order to achieve this I need to focus more onContinue reading “Summary: Tutor Feedback from Assignment 2”

Leon Spilliaert

Just back from the Royal Academy where I saw the sombre toned drawings of Leon Spilliaert. It was a timely exhibition for me as a drawing student as this artist specialised in drawing with ink, conte sticks and pencil rather than painting in oils. I was impressed by the expressive use of ink washes andContinue reading “Leon Spilliaert”

Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins is (Wikipedia) “a Latvian–American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks”. Born 1938, she fled from Soviet occupation of Latvia with her parents in 1940 to Germany where she lived in a refugee camp until 1948, then wasContinue reading “Vija Celmins”

Part 3: Project 5: Exercise 2: Study of a townscape using line

Continuing on in playful mood, I find that early on in a drawing, I rapidly find myself reluctant to finish. This distrust of completion – or just plain laziness, if you prefer – ever plagues my creative output. I have several incomplete pieces inspired by the exercises in this Part 3 of the course. IContinue reading “Part 3: Project 5: Exercise 2: Study of a townscape using line”

Part 3: Project 1: Exercise 3: Study of several trees

I did the following preliminary sketches before embarking upon the above drawing. I was working from a photograph as Storm Dennis was in full sway thus preventing direct observational drawing. As I drew these sketches, I thought about my influences for landscape drawing. David Hockney came to mind. I’d seen his exhibition at the RoyalContinue reading “Part 3: Project 1: Exercise 3: Study of several trees”

Time Out

I took time out today to finish off this gift for my great niece. I’m very pleased with how the words (my own) stand out just enough from my niece’s drawing. I printed them on an acetate transparency (which is extremely expensive, by the way – hadn’t realised) and placed that on top of aContinue reading “Time Out”

Jumping ahead: Part 3: Project 5: Exercise 4: Statues

Project 5: Exercise 4: Statues I realise I’m meant to do the exercises in sequence but I saw this statue and felt the urge to make my own impression from it. I drew the following sketch of a statue from life at the Wallace Collection in London. It was a foretaste of the above whichContinue reading “Jumping ahead: Part 3: Project 5: Exercise 4: Statues”