JENNY PURRETT

I enjoyed looking at Jenny Purrett’s work and found it quite inspirational. I enjoyed her sense of scale, loose drawing and use of colour. Below are some of her works that may influence my own work in the future.

Above: Silver Birch

I find the scale of the drawing above quite amazing. I have questions about how you would map out and plan a drawing of this size. The drawing is very detailed. Large scale is something I would like to look at as a possibility for my drawings. I need to research how large drawings can be produced. Do artists stick sheets of paper together? Can you buy extra large paper?On Jenny Purrett’s Instagram site she demonstrates some of her student’s work completed on wallpaper. I had never considered wallpaper as a medium before and I would like to give this a go. Wallpaper would allow for a larger scale of drawing and is easy to source.

I like the loose outline of the leaves – combined with just one other colour. The variation in tone of the yellow and the solid black line helps create depth and movement. I like that the objects are too big for the paper and leave the page on a diagonal slant. I can see some similarities with drawings I have done to the one above – seeing Jenny’s drawings gives me confidence that my way of drawing is not necessarily too simplistic. I would like to experiment further with charcoal and coloured pastels.

Above is a collaboration between Jenny Purrett and Lee Turner. It is a lithograph. The above drawing is very delicate and detailed. A whole range of shading from very light to very dark create tone and depth. I like the angle that it is drawn from. I think the artist must have been sitting down on the slope looking up. It makes the drawing more interesting than just being head on to it. I have experience some difficulties getting these types of angle into my drawings as the weather has been so very poor (its Jan/Feb). Perhaps, as the weather improves, I can sit next to my subjects and try other angles of study..

The two drawings above ‘outside drawings’ I like very much. They give me a few ideas about improving my own drawings. I like the way she has incorporated the coloured pastel in with the charcoal drawing. The drawings are very loose and relaxed but do work. They demonstrate energy and flow. This is because the artist hasn’t over laboured the marks made but has considered balance and frame.

The continuous line drawings made me think of my own townscape line drawing experiments. The above shows you can produce lose, fluid work without over working the process. The continuous line makes you feel like your on a journey with the artist and pulls you along. The image is not at all static.