Assessment – Maureen Walker's blog: An Artist's Journey

Completed Piece for Assignment 5

Overall I am pleased with this outcome. Despite earlier misgivings about a lack of an illusion of physical depth to the image, I feel the colour choices and textures created by multiple layers depict an emotional depth. The eyes are startlingly expressive. I chose to colour them a bright blue to accentuate this effect, thoughContinue reading “Completed Piece for Assignment 5”

Assignment 5: Personal Project: Artist’s Statement

Personal Project: Using Complementary Colours to Produce an Emotionally Expressive, Mixed Media, Self Portrait In the reference sketch, I have a pronounced furrowed brow. In this project I wished to express my tendency towards hypervigilance, using a more explorative and experimental approach to mark making. I wanted to achieve the same level of expressiveness thatContinue reading “Assignment 5: Personal Project: Artist’s Statement”

Before and after pix

I had some very encouraging feedback from my tutor on Assignment 4: The Figure. He suggested that I rework some sketches to give more depth using tonal contrast. The following few pieces I feel have benefitted from being revisited. I feel that the extra shading has been well worth the effort involved. There is moreContinue reading “Before and after pix”

Research Point: Self Portraits

In a way, all Art is a form of self portraiture, as it is difficult to separate the Art from the Artist. We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go. Similarly to those who choose to reproduce themselves biologically, in executing a self portrait, we artists are often driven to seek out a form ofContinue reading “Research Point: Self Portraits”

Part 4: Project 2: Exercise 2: A Longer Study (enlargement)

I started this about 03:00 today. I began with the scanned drawing which I then uploaded to Irfanview. I segmented it, printed the separate parts onto A4 sheets and reassembled them onto white A1 mountboard. More by luck than design, it fitted. It was a case of playing around. It went through the following renditions:Continue reading “Part 4: Project 2: Exercise 2: A Longer Study (enlargement)”

Sketchbook

OK, confession time. I find it incredibly challenging to maintain a sketching habit – in fact any habit that is generally good for me. I do realise that, in order to consider myself to be an effective artist, I need to change that fact, and pretty damn quickly. The following are pages from my sketchbookContinue reading “Sketchbook”

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”

Part 3: Project 2: Exercise 3: 360° Studies

I actually enjoyed the monotony of picking out the window panes here. Perhaps I was feeling guilty for the lack of painstaking drawing within the last composition. I think, if I were to choose a composition from these different angles I would go for the South view. This is due to the variety in levelsContinue reading “Part 3: Project 2: Exercise 3: 360° Studies”

Part 2: Project 4: Exercise 2: Composition: An Interior

OK, so I began the day feeling like a fraud. Not only did I baulk at repeated sketches of the same part of my room, I took the following photograph and printed it off. I then used a light box (gasp) to mark down the parameters and perspective of my chosen composition. The reason IContinue reading “Part 2: Project 4: Exercise 2: Composition: An Interior”

Part 2: Project 3: Exercise 2: Still Life in Tone Using Colour

I found this ”still life kit” in a charity shop for £1. I’ve been looking forward to having the time to sit and draw it. The study above uses coloured pencils on cheap cartridge paper (later pasted into my kraft paper sketchbook). Using frottage from a textured leather notebook cover, I used colours to representContinue reading “Part 2: Project 3: Exercise 2: Still Life in Tone Using Colour”