Exercise 1 The Structure of the Human Body I researched the internet to find various images of the different structures of the body and found loads of material. I also found many on-line tutorials for drawing different parts of the body. Below are sketches I made in my sketchbook with pencil, charcoal pencil and charcoal …
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PART FOUR – THE FIGURE AND THE HEAD – PROJECT 3 FORM
Exercise 1 BASIC SHAPES I found drawing the body as axis lines and shapes very helpful and seemed to improve my image. I was hindered in this exercise as the model was photographed (2D) so I couldn’t move around her for alternative views. Below is a screen shot of the website I was using. Below …
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PART FOUR THE FIGURE AND THE HEAD – PROJECT 2 – PROPORTION
EXERCISE 1 QUICK STUDIES I drew a couple of quick studies of my husband lying on the sofa, using charcoal and felt pen. I worked from different angles. Drawing from behind his head and from the feet up meant I had to consider foreshortening in the perspective. A4 SKETCHBOOK charcoal The best most successful sketch …
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IMPLICATIONS OF THE CORONA VIRUS LOCKDOWN TO MY STUDY- APRIL 2020
By late March 2020 the UK had moved into full ‘Corona virus’ home lockdown. This was when I started project four in earnest. My husband was working hard from home and I had no life model to call upon. I did some research and found the website http://www.artmodeltips.com This had many different life models in …
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PART FOUR – THE FIGURE AND THE HEAD – PROJECT 1 FABRIC AND FORM
Exercise 1 Drawing Fabric using Line and Tone I draped a scarf over a garden chair as it was a sunny day outside. The sun was strong, so it threw strong shadows in some areas and made the cloth transparent in others. There were also areas of almost white brightness on the material. It was …
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PART FOUR THE FIGURE AND THE HEAD -FINDING A MODEL – HIGH WYCH LIFE DRAWING GROUP
In the New Year, knowing that part four of the drawing course was ‘The Figure and the Head’, I started to explore local groups to join. I was very lucky to find the High Wych group on Facebook. They would meet every Wednesday evening in High Wych community hall, a village only a mile from …
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The Urban Environment
Back in January 2010 some friends (on Facebook) and I were finding our winter surroundings rather testing. For our great amusement, we started to take photos of what we saw around us, in our towns, every day. It started with sightings of plastic bags in trees and grew from there. We posted our snaps in …
Review of My Progress Against Assessment Criteria
Demonstration of Technical and Visual Skills I feel I am slowly developing a looser approach to drawing. I enjoy using pastels and charcoal and feel I am developing a lighter, more expressive, touch. I feel I had a bit of a breakthrough with the image below. I think it may be, in some ways, more …
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COMPARISON OF APPROACHES
SEURAT LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES 1881 Tacita Dean Fatigues, 2012 There are as many different approaches to (landscape) art as there are artists who paint/draw. Every individual has there own take on subject and method of representation Above are images from two artists whose work has similarities. The similarities are the monochrome pallet and the delicate …
VIJA CLEMINS
In the short clip of film http://www.vimeo.com/22299024 Vija Clemins describes the process she uses to recreate the natural forms she sees into her art. She describes it as re-creating, not copying. The key to this is not mimic but to employ attention span to re-describe what is seen and put it onto another object. She …
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