The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me!  This is my learning log and blog about my studies at OCA, and the subject for this blog is Visual Studies 1: Understanding Visual Culture.  This course is divided into 5 parts which I have to work through and hand in an assignment per part.   I get the impression there will […]

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Part Three Project 5 Townscapes

18 Junie 2018 Research point Look at the work John Virtue did whilst being an associate artist in residence at the National Gallery. The context of the research is to find a theme increasingly adopted by contemporary artists who revisit the art historic subject of ‘landscape’ to offer insight into today’s fast changing society.   […]

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Part Three: Project 4 Perspective

15 June Starting with this project I was a bit apprehensive – due to my own fears for getting perspective right.  I tried to focus on the basic rule of perspective and let my mind move towards the vanishing point. Exercise 1 Parallel perspective – an interior view I did a sketch whilst standing in […]

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Part Three : Project 2 Landscape

  8 June 2018 Research point on drawing natural elements Some artists adopt a similar approach to drawing other natural elements, for example the sea or the night sky. The notes encourage me to look at images by Vija Celmins to aid me in how I will attempt the first exercise of this project, namely […]

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Part Three Project 3 Composition

Exercise 1 Developing your studies Research point: Comparison of Tacita Dean’s Blackbord drawings with Seurat’s Landscape with Houses. Interesting that both these works by artists, from different eras in working with landscape, choose to work in Monochrome of black and white, but on different mediums and in different scale that influence the drawings.  At 2400 […]

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Part Three: Project 2 Landscape

7 June 2018 Research Point Research artists from different eras who use landscape as their main subject. I read that in Italian a Vedutista, is a Landscape Painter. The term “landscape” actually derives from the Dutch word “landschap”, which originally meant “region, tract of land” but acquired the artistic connotation, “a picture depicting scenery on […]

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