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Assignment 2: Preparation

I used a lightbox on two of the above pictures as an aid to planning the composition. I plan to draw the image with the standard lamp and bookcase as the finished piece on wall lining paper with conte sticks, wax crayons and pastels. I may try some wax resist with some white wax crayonContinue reading “Assignment 2: Preparation”

Part 2: Project 4: Exercise 3: Material Differences

I’m not sure whether this exercise has been a success or not. As a learning experience it has been very useful. I think I’ve played it a bit too safe with the medium used. Coloured pencils are something I’m already fairly familiar with. I used them as I knew I could render detail sharply asContinue reading “Part 2: Project 4: Exercise 3: Material Differences”

Part 2: Project 3: Exercise 4: Monochrome

I had to wait in for a parcel to be delivered, so I couldnt go out to get anything of a natural subject matter for this latest exercise. I didn’t want to waste the morning’s light so remembered a dried up coconut in my studio. I took it outside and cracked it open on theContinue reading “Part 2: Project 3: Exercise 4: Monochrome”

Research: Jenny Saville

My reaction to Jenny Saville‘s art is to find it at once grotesque and highly affecting upon the senses. The artist, I feel, seeks to challenge our carefully honed expectations of what a female nude ought to represent. Usually we are invited to rest our gaze upon images that promote ”decorative feminine beauty”. Here, itContinue reading “Research: Jenny Saville”

Part 2: Project 3: Exercise 3: Experiment with Mixed Media

Exercise 3: Experiment with mixed media. I just have to start by saying I learned a lot from this exercise. And though the outcome wasn’t a fully realised image today, it could be on another day. But at this point I have retired from the drawing board for today. Actually it was a square canvasContinue reading “Part 2: Project 3: Exercise 3: Experiment with Mixed Media”

Research: Steven Shearer

Assignment 1: Summary of Key Points from Tutor Feedback

As suggested, I summarise below the key points from Assignment 1 feedback, together with my reflections on some of the key points. Assignment feedback Use more experimental approaches to exercises. I look forward to doing so. Use camera for further experiments with “drawing” in widest sense. I certainly shall! Regard course material as a guide:Continue reading “Assignment 1: Summary of Key Points from Tutor Feedback”

Research: Toba Khedoori

I like this artist’s work. I like her spare and delicate minimalist style, her technical ability is in evidence. I liked ”Windows” as it reminds me of the above reductive lino print I produced. However, I have included figures behind the window panes. They are subtly lit, slightly secretive and furtive characters: perhaps lovers inContinue reading “Research: Toba Khedoori”

Note to self: New Resolution

Resolution No 1) To draw 7 sketches (one per day) in my sketchbook each week (even if that means scrambling them together on Sunday afternoon/evening) and blogging about it at the end of the week. This is a repeat of the resolution written on the inside cover of my sketchbook. The one with the guyContinue reading “Note to self: New Resolution”

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”