“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived” Henry David Thoreau 3 June 2018 Part […]
27 May 2018 The idea is to pull together the fine observation and the practice I have done during this part of the course up to now. I have been listening to Flamenco and Fado music recently and decide to bring my memory of the Singer Sargeant El Jaleo painting, into this exercise. Although I […]
23 May 2018 Exercise 1 Quick sketches around the house I decided to start in my bedroom. For the first sketch I sat on the kingsized bed, but the angles of my bedside table came our really bad. I draw what I did not see! I then took a front view and decided to work […]
18 May 2018 Using a variety of media and different techniques Exercise 1 Still life using line Use an A3 sheet of paper to make a drawn study that shows your understanding of the forms, and the connections and spaces between the forms. Concentrate on patterns, textures and shapes – this exercise is principally an […]
15 May 2018 Focus on natural forms Grass cut like circles – light plays in between and shadows and interesting form of these circles. My photo is taken in our garden – the circles remind me of using negative space to enhance the form and colour of the grass circles. I first did a quick […]
I used the image with the skull as a line study for Still Life – I experimented during the creative process with drawing medium and textures. […]
During April to 8 May 2018 I visited 2 exhibitions by local artists. Invocations to the Plate by Deborah Bell : 12 to 2 June 2018 at David Krut Projects, Parkwood, Gauteng. Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists and works in a range of media on canvas and paper, produces […]
I re worked the first drawing to push the tonal contrasts further, as my tutor suggested. I like the memories it evokes in me. […]
Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist and communicates his emotions and ideas through the expressive use of line, form and colour. I found an online extract of a publication by Harriet K. Stratis, A technical investigation of Odilon Redon’s pastels and Noirs, very helpful in my research work for this project. Redon used the chiaroscuro […]
4 May 2018 Exercise 1 Groups of objects I have to choose at least 6 objects of different sizes and shapes, of which some should be three-dimensional forms made from rectangles and cylinders. I do a few short drawings…I am not comfortable with drawing a see through rectangular box. I understand the idea is to […]