Build texture by reworking lines in chalk on black paper. Use an eraser to define smudged lines of chalk. Build up layers of colour. Finish pieces by adding detail. For example the 360° exercise. The West and South views could use colour/texture on the sky and on parked cars. I find I have a fearContinue reading “Assignment 3: Tutor Feedback”
Category Archives: Part 3
Sketchbook
OK, confession time. I find it incredibly challenging to maintain a sketching habit – in fact any habit that is generally good for me. I do realise that, in order to consider myself to be an effective artist, I need to change that fact, and pretty damn quickly. The following are pages from my sketchbookContinue reading “Sketchbook”
Assignment 3: Waterloo Sunset: Amendment
Hopefully the added colour has improved this landscape I submitted for assignment 3. I feel I have bitten off a bit more than I can chew on this scene. Trying such a complex view in a two hour stint was I mistake, I realise now. Earlier pieces in the unit have been more successful dueContinue reading “Assignment 3: Waterloo Sunset: Amendment”
Part 3: Project 4: Exercise 1: Parallel Perspective: Amendment
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”
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”
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