With angles, perspective and interiors in mind, the first idea that popped into my head was a perspective of my spiral staircase. I've always liked the way that the darkness rises from the ground floor through the banister posts to meet the skylight over head. There's something mysterious about a curling set of stairs that …
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An interesting concept is the fact that even though we perceive and accept the object we see in front of us as recognisable things, a plant pot, your friend, a building etc, it’s usually only when you try and draw something in extreme perspective, close up, or from different angles, that you realise just how …
Being around the time of lock down, this was a rather apt project titled 'At home'. This first exercise required four separate drawings of a chosen room, each centred on a corner to give more or less a 360degree view of the room. Then to move on through the house capturing different views of each …
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Not only was it great fun to do, but I found myself feeling more creative on the pages I had stitched together using different textured papers as well as making the book. There was something about the personalised colours and textures of the random sized pages that got my energy going, rather than opening up …
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THEMES AND IDEAS Hand Made Paper It’s not as daunting as it seems. It just takes a little preparation, a little time, and a bit more patience. The patience part coming at the end of the process when the paper is layered and you are painstakingly peeling it off the board with the most delicate …
A still life drawing in monochrome was a great study for me. Trying to keep it simple I broke down the task into two main categories, colour and mood. Colour being the hue I chose and mood being the subject matter chosen. Distilling it down like this I decided towards an intimate scene, close up, …
This was a great exercise to explore how different mediums could be incorporated and how they would react, enhance, or cancel each other out. I started with a list of materials that came to mind so that I could experiment with them and make a short list of the ones that worked well together before …
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I was asked to review the last two exercises which was good for me as I learned a lot about what I struggled with mainly. First of all what I was successful with and what I found problematic. I realised that drawing in line was for me much easier and I was able to get …
I was quite pleased with the outcome of this still life using coloured pencil and charcoal powder to create a nice contrast of the back and foregrounds. We were asked to consider a few points regarding composition, choice of objects, background, point of view and light which is a useful checkpoint considering all still life. …
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Beauty and the Beasts. The brief for this exercise was to depict a still life arrangement using line, putting more emphasis on the reason of objects chosen, position and relation of textures to create a still life that has a bit of a story or meaning behind it. Factors I considered were things like old …
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