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”
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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”
Play Time
Does this count as a landscape? I suspect it falls more into the category of illustrative art rather than fine art. I had fun creating this. The colours and composition used are from a long lost picture I did for my niece on her 7th birthday. Now my niece is in her 30s and hasContinue reading “Play Time”
Research Point: Landscape Artists
A while ago, I discovered a thin but nevertheless criminally expensive volume on Lina Bo Bardi in the Serpentine Gallery in London. Despite its price tag I had to have it, because I loved her drawings. They were not all necessarily the most technically adept but had a naivety that appealed to me. It putContinue reading “Research Point: Landscape Artists”
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”
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”
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