The view of the beach from Anglesey bridge on and nice clear day is amazing, so when asked to do a 360 degree study of an expanse, I thought straight away of this. The brief was to face a direction, spend 15 minuets sketching the view, turn 90 degrees, another 15 minuets, and so on …
Pt 3, Pr 2, Ex 1 – Cloud formations and tone.
To me I'm in Turner's court when he quoted (1) "come here - come here! Look at this thunderstorm! Isn't it grand? - Isn't it wonderful? - Isn't it sublime?. .There, Hawkey; in two years you will see this again, and call it 'Hannibal Crossing the Alps'." There is something sublime about the sky and …
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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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