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 […]
18 May 2018 Using a variety of media and different techniques Exercise 1 Still life using line Use an A3 sheet of paper to make a drawn study that shows your understanding of the forms, and the connections and spaces between the forms. Concentrate on patterns, textures and shapes – this exercise is principally an […]
15 May 2018 Focus on natural forms Grass cut like circles – light plays in between and shadows and interesting form of these circles. My photo is taken in our garden – the circles remind me of using negative space to enhance the form and colour of the grass circles. I first did a quick […]
I re worked the first drawing to push the tonal contrasts further, as my tutor suggested. I like the memories it evokes in me. […]
Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist and communicates his emotions and ideas through the expressive use of line, form and colour. I found an online extract of a publication by Harriet K. Stratis, A technical investigation of Odilon Redon’s pastels and Noirs, very helpful in my research work for this project. Redon used the chiaroscuro […]
4 May 2018 Exercise 1 Groups of objects I have to choose at least 6 objects of different sizes and shapes, of which some should be three-dimensional forms made from rectangles and cylinders. I do a few short drawings…I am not comfortable with drawing a see through rectangular box. I understand the idea is to […]