I decided to work on the original sketch as a limited palette piece as the subject naturally seemed to have three colour types: blue for the sky, green for the trees and grass, brown for the man-made structures. I liked the intersections and angles of the objects and the slant of the ground. The tone …
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The line drawing below proved quite tricky as getting the perspective correct was quite a challenge. I realised that the car in the foreground filled half the view – my brain wanted it to be smaller, but this would not have been as the scene really was. I was frustrated with the image when I …
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I drove to Harlow town centre ‘Watergardens’ car park. This is a vast car park, facing the civil centre, flanked by Asda and TK Max. I thought it would make an interesting subject as the civil centre is a vast concrete building with blocks of building and trees visible next to and behind it. However, …
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PARALLEL PERSPECTIVE – AN INTERIOR VIEW I made this exercise (unintentionally) more difficult by sitting in an elevated position on the stairs. I learned quite a bit from this exercise, as I did make a few errors. I didn’t know where the vanishing point should be for the staircase – should it be on the …
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I quite enjoyed drawing statues. Harlow Town is very near where I live (its where I grew up – and I’m rather fond of the place) and actually calls itself ‘sculpture town’. There is a sculpture trail in the town – I’ve put a copy of the trail pamphlet in my sketchbook. The sculptures amuse …
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I have started using my car as a tool for drawing. I travel down the A507, to Bedford, every week to visit my poorly dad. This winding road has a multitude of amazing views. The only issue is that there are few places to stop and draw them. I have found a couple of good …
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I chose a sketch from my Harlow Town Park studies to develop. I chose this sketch as the shape of the land was interesting with: a gently curving path with banks either side that moved though the scene from front to back; interestingly placed trees in the far ground and a large impressive tree in …
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For the 360 degree study I chose to use the multi-storey carpark that I use for work as my base. Each corner of the car park has a very different, interesting view of the town. As the views are urban I decided to use a ruler and felt pen in three of the views to …
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I had a couple of attempts at the walk in Harlow Town Park, as the weather was so poor on both occasions (grey cold windy drizzly). I tried line drawings in black 0.8 drawing pen and also coloured pencil drawings. The drawing pen I found most effective as this can quickly give a sense of …
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I drew clouds and sky on a few different days at different times of day. I love looking at the sky, so I wanted to put energy and excitement into my sky drawings. I used sweeps of pastel and put different colours into the mix trying to reproduce what I saw and felt. This method …
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