Saturday 15 February 10am – 4pm Zurich (Dubai 1pm-8pm) This Zoom workshop was organised though OCA and Bryan Eccleshall was the tutor leading the group of students, of whom I was a participant. A dedicated Padlet was created for the day and all registered to oca.padlet.org to have a safe and sharing environment. Objectives of […]
Here I have to give thought to different context for the human figure. Exercise A figure in an interior Thinking about what the exercise asks of me, I understand how the figure being painted is part of a wider subject matter. I am still working with my ‘sleeping model’ and see this sleeping paintings as […]
EXERCISE SELF-PORTRAIT Looking back at the drawing I see that to much detail (eyes, hair, lips, glasses..)and not enough shape and form in the sketch – too young look I am aware of my own facial expressions whilst making the painting and feel quite exposed. I do look tired and stern! The changing light becomes […]
EXERCISE DRAWING THE HUMAN FIGURE I realised at the start of this part of the course that I will be relying mostly on myself and maybe my husband in terms of using a model. I found it difficult to have him sit for me and decided to make use of photos as well. Finding him […]
During the last few weeks I started a portrait of my husband. I used a photo taken a while ago as my reference. I did not feel confident to do a colour painting and decided to work on a grisaille. I find that I have to concentrate on this method in order to lay stronger […]
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 […]