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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 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 4:Exercise 1

Quick sketches around the house I call ma boudoir ”my bedsit”. I have a one bedroom flat, but my living room is my studio so, in theory, all art paraphernalia lives in my studio. In practice of course it spills over if unchecked. A friendly elf comes and periodically stems the tide. The image withContinue reading “Part 2: Project 4:Exercise 1”

Research: Bushey Museum and Art Gallery

Bushey Museum, an undiscovered gem near Watford in Hertfordshire, houses paintings by Sir Hubert von Herkomer as well as various artists both living and dead. I particularly liked the following example by Teresa Pemberton (undated), a Fine Art graduate of University of Hertfordshire, coincidentally just down the road from where I live. I like theContinue reading “Research: Bushey Museum and Art Gallery”

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”

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”

Research: David Musgrave

I get the impression that in looking at any of David Musgrave’s art online, it would be best viewed ”in the flesh”. Having said that, I also get the feeling that his work is heavy on process and in tying oneself in knots by intellectualising outcomes. Representational art requires some appreciation of process, but itContinue reading “Research: David Musgrave”