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”
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Assignment 2
The checklist for this assignment specifies Use of colour Appropriate medium Composition and context Mark making and contrasts of line and tone Depiction of form Experimentation By choosing a busy corner of my studio for this assignment I achieved contrast in colour use. I went for a loose style, using conte sticks and oil pastels,Continue reading “Assignment 2”
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
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”
