The assignment asks of me to draw an outdoor scene of my choice – the view should also allow you to demonstrate your understanding of aerial or linear perspective. My reference to the handbag looking like a window in a previous post on perspective is a thought I would like to continue for this […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]