My thoughts at this stage is more philosophical and the experience of colour is something that is different for everybody, it is perceived differently. I found Still Life not an easy topic to have explored the development and learning of colour – I struggled with colour choices and execution of many of the exercises when […]
Still life I have decided to draw a plate with lemons and oranges set on a table which is ready for dinner to be served. The intended viewpoint is that of looking onto the lemons and standing sitting to the right of it, at the corner of the table. Light is falling from the right […]
By now I realise that mastery of value was more important than colour in the work of the Renaissance painters. Chevreul’s laws of harmony and contrast of colour is now coming forward. I came upon the work of Josep Albers who, in 1950, at the age of 62, began what would become his signature series, […]
After doing Research point 4 and the works I looked at and thinking about the intentions of the artists as almost giving us some insight into how people lived in those times, I feel at ease to agree with the study notes on re-examining the “paraphernalia of everyday life we have a perfect vehicle for […]
The idea is to develop my observational and technical skills by focussing on this traditional genre of painting. We have some background on the Dutch Golden Age of painting in our study notes and I did do reading whilst doing the Drawing 1 course earlier this year. I realize this should add as the framework […]
Still life will be the topic through which the main focus will be on developing my understanding of colour. I do hope to revisit my attempts in the first part with the aloe in the glass pot, as I will end off this part with a still life. RESEARCH POINT 1 The representation which the […]
BASICS OF LINEAR PERSPECTIVE I need to make some notes in my learning log, and being mindful that we will look at perspective in Part Four again. There are many types of perspective. To name but a few: aerial perspective, frontal perspective (or 1-point perspective), angular perspective (or 2-points perspective or oblique view), perspectives with […]
INTERIORS BY DUTCH REALIST GENRE PAINTERS Traditionally, genre painting is understood as the art of the everyday – and it’s something, the history of art tells us, at which Dutch Golden Age painters excelled. On the Museum Del Prada website I read that the Dutch Genre painters made small sized paintings of interiors ( 45.7×40.6) […]
Optical effects as used by the Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists in their optical mixing. Also view the work of Bridget Riley or the Op artists. My first thoughts is about the Impressionists painting on site – the plein air technique. They sought to capture the optical effects of light in order to convey the passage […]
Here I will do the exercises as in the study guide from pages 57 to 62. I read that our first exercise has to focus on an arrangement of objects, found in my house, that just happens to be there. What an interesting take! It could be in the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom…..time to observe and […]