PART FIVE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Introduction It is suggested that I review my achievements so far and also reflect on which projects I’ve enjoyed. I feel I could have explored colour more – made more enquiries into how it applies in brush marking – oil painting. I found doing self portraits more challenging than still lives – although at the […]

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PART FIVE

RESEARCH POINTS RESEARCH POINT 1 I have to look a a range of painting with particular attention to the way the paint has been applied – from Monet, Pissarro, Cèzanne, van Gogh and the Expressionist painters. I should also look at the work of some 20th century pastel paintings and make notes about the range […]

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IMPROVING AND DEVELOPING MY SKILLS AS A PAINTER

Evaluating how I developed my painting work process in terms of the course aims I will refer to page 5 in the course, Practice of Painting, where this is discussed and gives me the framework to attempt to critically evaluate the following:Explore and employ key processes for drawing and painting; Explore a range of media […]

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Tutor feedback on part 4

I had a Zoom tutorial feedback with my tutor and she shared the mp3 recording. I value this learning, as we get into the detail of my specific issues and I can go back and apply what I learned. With regards to my assignment work my tutor is happy with the experiments and feel I […]

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PART FOUR RESEARCH POINTS

Looking at the research points in this part I soon realise that it would be good to start working on it, before I get into much more paintings, as expression and compositional learning could add to my work. Research point 1 On the Moma website I read that the painting below, reminded Dali of the […]

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ASSIGNMENT FOUR

REVIEW OF WORK DONE IN THIS PART I have to review all the landscape paintings and preparatory sketches I have made in this part of the course and assess which have been the most engaging exercises. I enjoyed painting the 3 smalls of the trees outside my studio at different times and how the style […]

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CRITIQUE WITH HELEN ROUSSEAU

WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2020 608PM (UK time) This Zoom online session is the first of the sessions led by Helen Rousseau that I have attended. The group has had a previous session in December 2019. I knew from the email with regards to the session what to expect of the session, but have to admit […]

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REFLECTING ON PART THREE

I had a google chat tutorial with my tutor yesterday, and she shared the MP3 recording of our discussion. Apart from me realizing that I did not make my whole learning blog on all the exercises for part 3 available to my tutor, we could discuss the work as well as going on to the […]

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