The most important points I felt that attributed to my development on this part were mainly: Using and developing ways to work with mediums that I wasn't familiar with, or felt unconfident using.Steering away from those I was confident wit h.Finding systems to work on each exercise and finding one that suited me.Researching areas of …
Pt 2, Pr 4, Ex 2 – Composition – An Interior
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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Research Point – Multiple view points
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 …
Pt 2, Pr 4, Ex 1 – Quick sketches Around the House
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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Home made paper
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 …
Pt 2, Pr 3, Ex 4 – Monochrome
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, …
Pt 2, Pr 3, Ex 3 – Experiment with Mixed Media
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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Review for Pr 3, Ex 1 + 2
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 …
Pt 2, Pr 3, Ex 2 – Still life in tone using colour.
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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Pt 2, Pr 2, Ex 1 – detail and tone.
This exercise was geared towards looking closely at expressing details of texture and tones. I took some fruit and veg and began to see how I could replicate the textures using a range of graphite pencils. Finding it more difficult than I anticipated I was getting a bit frustrated coming up with believable surfaces and …
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