Assignment 5

Summary of Tutor Feedback from Assignment 5: Personal Project

Overall I was very please to receive tutor feedback on my Personal Project for this assignment. It was timely, well considered, and I believe it showed a genuine interest in my work and processes. My tutor was pleased to see I’d taken on board his pointers from Assignment 4 and reworked pieces accordingly. This, togetherContinue reading “Summary of Tutor Feedback from Assignment 5: Personal Project”

Summary of Tutor Feedback from Assignment 4

Overall Good progress in part 4: The Figure, a difficult subject. There is a likelihood of passing at assessment, however a few areas will require attention. Develop pieces to completion including the following, giving greater depth using tone. Develop the technique of enlarging sketches such as reclining figure. Detail why certain colours and textures haveContinue reading “Summary of Tutor Feedback from Assignment 4”

Personal Approach to Colour Use

I don’t have a favourite colour. Colours are not standalone entities: they rely on one another to spark off a response in the viewer. My use of colour is largely instinctive, but I do have a rough idea of a colour wheel inside my head, to which I refer on a regular basis when puttingContinue reading “Personal Approach to Colour Use”

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: 11th Hour Change of Heart/crisis of confidence

It’s 3am on Wednesday 5th August – just under a week before I had envisioned submitting Hypervigilance #2 for Assignment 5. I have given this mixed media work a personal critique, and as a result, have had an 11th hour change of heart. Looking at this collage, I realise now that, if I were toContinue reading “Assignment 5: Personal Project: 11th Hour Change of Heart/crisis of confidence”

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”

Reflective writing workshop

The following post is the result of homework given during a zoom-hosted OCA workshop on reflective writing techniques. This is taking place over two consecutive Saturdays in July. In the intervening week students lucky enough to be included were tasked to come up with a short blog post (250 words – exceeded here) presumably forContinue reading “Reflective writing workshop”

Assignment 5 update

I cannibalized one of the blue collagraph prints to take the glasses frames and pasted them onto the purple print – which can now be more accurately described as a collage – and added the neck area too from the same blue print. This left me with a “holey” print. This I laid on topContinue reading “Assignment 5 update”

Today’s efforts; again I feel the need to stop and consider awhile. It needs something but I’m not sure what right now. Come back to it tomorrow. I have to say that I prefer the latest version to the one that sold. I think it’s more human and less like an anachronistic byzantinesque icon. References:Continue reading “Assignment 5”