Lines Squiggles and Webs PART ONE OF A TWO-PART WORKSHOP ( Saturday 30 April, next Saturday 28 May) The main ideas of the cross-disciplinary workshop are to investigate visual responses to music/sound, look at improvisation and explore the fine line between chaos and coherence. Soon into the workshop, we joined...
Exercise 1.5 Painting in the round The method for the exercise is to dispense with the canvas and allow the object that I am interested in to become the ‘canvas’ I work on. To prepare for the work I have to make at least 3 large objects. The exercise suggests...
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO STILL LIFE: OBJECT TABLE DEVELOPMENT The following was taken from the study material: In Part Two you will explore intersections between painting and sculpture. Through practical, written and reflective exercises you will consider: The shift from depiction of pictorial space to the experience and articulation of physical...
Fig. 5.1. Monogram Exercise 1.4 Collect, combine, construct I am immediately drawn to the construct of Monogram, 1955-59, the scale, the different parts of this painting with objects, and the time frame in which it developed as a work. I question why he settled on putting the work horizontally on...
Exercise 1.3. Studio Reflections For this exercise, I need to consider my relationship to my work or studio space. Question: In your learning log/blog reflect upon your own approach to, and feelings about: action/inaction/, focus/distraction, knowing, being productive/unproductive, in the studio. What is your relationship to your workspace? What does...
Exercise 1.2 On perspective Using gouache and/or household emulsion, paint flat colours onto pieces of paper mirroring the colours you see on the table. Paint a base paper the colour of the tabletop. Make a series of colour studies, with these papers, which explore shape and the spatial relationships that...
"Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing...