Photograph of Lucian After hearing of a Lucian Freud exhibition at Liverpool's Tate gallery I thought it would be rude not to go visit it. For someone who was asked to paint a portrait for the Queen, Freud has been a great talent in the realm of portraiture in the past generation. Famed for his …
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A self portrait is a very personal feat to execute. It is one thing to try and portray someone else's emotions and inner feelings, but to share your own can be quite daunting. On the other hand, I guess no-one knows you quite like yourself, and portraying yourself can be quite a statement, as long …
Written Self Assessment. The project was a final piece incorporating the main development of skills and ideas, techniques and knowledge that has been acquired throughout the course. This would be a great time to go back over my previous work and through my thoughts and processes in my log book and blog, and pick out …
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After assessing what I have produced and learned, I decided to incorporate what I learned from my tutor, disregard what I was comfortable with, and use a medium that I wasn't familiar with. My only theory being if I couldn't pull it off i need to give up! My choice was the figure and the …
Two large figure drawings complete with supporting material and a self portrait of any size was the final brief for the end of part 4. The first was to be a seated figure drawn in line with particular emphasis on the 3d form represented on a 2d surface, expressing convincing depth and form. Secondly was …
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I enjoyed this task. Possibly one of the most challenging to date, and it opened up a number of questions for me that forwarded to a number of leads towards underlining practices, not just with drawing what you see, but exercising my memory muscles and my spacial awareness of where my pencil is making marks, …
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The face is an outside gateway to the inside emotion of a person or animal. A keen artist can capture this emotion and portray it in a way, reflecting that inner emotion on the surface. TThis however could also be a reflection of a reflection into the mindset of the artist themselves. Without getting to …
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I decided to play around with a few different techniques with this exercise, so I started out drawing 6 different angles of my face. Using charcoal and not taking it off the paper I drew a continuous line of different views of my face from a small pocket mirror. Continuous line, charcoal. A1 This was …
Getting familiar with each facial feature I found helped me to place each one convincingly on the face, and understanding the bone structure underneath the skin was a good way of developing my perception of the forms and angles that I could see on the surface, and what was not visible. Starting off with the …
Now we are getting back to a bit of normality I was finally able to attend a life class held locally by Inch Arts, (https://www.facebook.com/InchArts), which can now become a regular weekly two hour session for me. For the first half we did three 5 minuet poses followed by a 25 minuet pose. Conte stick …
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