Build texture by reworking lines in chalk on black paper. Use an eraser to define smudged lines of chalk. Build up layers of colour. Finish pieces by adding detail. For example the 360° exercise. The West and South views could use colour/texture on the sky and on parked cars. I find I have a fearContinue reading “Assignment 3: Tutor Feedback”
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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: Waterloo Sunset: Amendment
Hopefully the added colour has improved this landscape I submitted for assignment 3. I feel I have bitten off a bit more than I can chew on this scene. Trying such a complex view in a two hour stint was I mistake, I realise now. Earlier pieces in the unit have been more successful dueContinue reading “Assignment 3: Waterloo Sunset: Amendment”
Part 3: Project 4: Exercise 1: Parallel Perspective: Amendment
I originally felt I did okay at this exercise. It’s a very good gauge of how I need to adjust my hand/eye coordination. But I thought the results were not too bad. I didn’t overwork the line drawing as I was aware I’d be drawing bold lines over it to indicate perspective. I seem toContinue reading “Part 3: Project 4: Exercise 1: Parallel Perspective: Amendment”
Research Point: LS Lowry, David Hockney
I love LS Lowry’s work. I like any artist’s work that seeks to strip a subject down to its essence. Another artist who achieves this is Alfred Wallis. I first came upon him in Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge (well worth a visit) There are some of his paintings in The Tate, St Ives. In hisContinue reading “Research Point: LS Lowry, David Hockney”
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”
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”
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”
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