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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”

Part 3: Project 1: Exercise 3: Study of several trees

I did the following preliminary sketches before embarking upon the above drawing. I was working from a photograph as Storm Dennis was in full sway thus preventing direct observational drawing. As I drew these sketches, I thought about my influences for landscape drawing. David Hockney came to mind. I’d seen his exhibition at the RoyalContinue reading “Part 3: Project 1: Exercise 3: Study of several trees”

Jumping ahead: Part 3: Project 5: Exercise 4: Statues

Project 5: Exercise 4: Statues I realise I’m meant to do the exercises in sequence but I saw this statue and felt the urge to make my own impression from it. I drew the following sketch of a statue from life at the Wallace Collection in London. It was a foretaste of the above whichContinue reading “Jumping ahead: Part 3: Project 5: Exercise 4: Statues”

Picasso and Paper

In my last post I included the above picture. I’d like to add that I feel we can learn a lot from the spontaneity of children – specifically children under the age of ten. I believe that such latent creativity is what lies dormant in mere mortals in later life – whereas the likes ofContinue reading “Picasso and Paper”

Part 3: Project 3: Exercise 2: Fore, Mid, Background

I have an early memory of being taken to the Tate gallery by my mother. I know I was under the age of ten because she died before I reached that age. I must have been impressed by alternative uses of colour in the paintings I saw there that day as later, on returning home,Continue reading “Part 3: Project 3: Exercise 2: Fore, Mid, Background”

Part 3: Project 3: Exercise 1: Composition

Here is an abortive plan for Exercise 2. The first attempt at an actual composition from a sketch facing south from the square outside my block. I went against a friend’s advice and attempted adding a more interesting tree in the foreground. However, as he predicted, the old willow was too heavy for the lighterContinue reading “Part 3: Project 3: Exercise 1: Composition”

Part 3: Project 2: Exercise 3: 360° Studies

I actually enjoyed the monotony of picking out the window panes here. Perhaps I was feeling guilty for the lack of painstaking drawing within the last composition. I think, if I were to choose a composition from these different angles I would go for the South view. This is due to the variety in levelsContinue reading “Part 3: Project 2: Exercise 3: 360° Studies”

Part 3: Project 2: Exercises 1&2

It’s been a whole week since I last blogged. Nothing much has happened drawing-wise. Now I’m playing catch up. I knew I wouldn’t have the patience required to add all those negative space rectangles in the shopping trolley. That’s why I opted for white pencil on black paper – because I’m essentially a lazy person.Continue reading “Part 3: Project 2: Exercises 1&2”