[gallery ids="1376,1381" type="rectangular"] 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...
9 July 2018 Research point Look at the work John Virtue did whilst being an associate artist in residence at the National Gallery during 2003-2005. His ‘London paintings’ were on display there in 2005. Virtue said, ‘ I have no interest in recording a rhetorical history of London; really I’m...
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...
8 June 2018 Research point on drawing natural elementsSome 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...
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...
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,...
"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...
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,...