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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I am very lucky to live near Epping Forest. So, I travelled there to find some trees to sketch – though there are plenty of nice subjects everywhere! I downloaded a guide to UK tree shapes and popped it in to my sketch book as a reference tool (I may actually learn to recognize some …
I read in the course notes about viewfinders and didn’t quite get why they would be necessary. Couldn’t I just choose what to draw and then draw it? However, on going out to the big outdoors to look at subjects I could re-create on paper, the penny dropped. The outside landscape is so vast that …
I am now keen to try and develop a more relaxed, spontaneous and playful approach to creating. I am actually finding this rather a challenge. I think this is because I have spent so many years at work and life trying to be a responsible adult, this aspect of living has been rather lost. Joining …
Exercise 1 Quick Sketches Around the House I sketched the corners of the rooms of the house for ideas. My house is so small that I couldn’t do four sketches per room without an overlap! I found it hard to get inspiration for a pleasing drawing as I find the clutter of random objects that …
The first image I produced was proportioned incorrectly – my bunch of bananas were too short and looked like they had been glued to the top of the bowl! The apples were too small too! I liked the energy of the bowl and the colours. I cropped the image down in the photos to show …
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As I did the exercise I did get quite frustrated, as my drawing lacked the subtly, detail and technique of the picture example in the course file. However, the resulting yellow orange and grey image below was quite punchy and lively – I had worked quickly and hadn’t overthought it. The others images took longer …
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I found some peacock feathers in a bric-a-brac shop. I loved the shape and pattern of them. I thought they would be a good subject for a line drawing as they are made up of hundreds of tiny line structures. I kept the negative shapes and the glass jar very light and loose in contrast …
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I took a bag and some children’s scissors and went out into the autumn day to collect a variety of leaves berries, twigs and seeds. I used yellow paper for the image below and was quite pleased with the result – though the drawing is a little clumsy. I found the shapes of leaves and …
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