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 …
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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 …
LANDSCAPE IN SERIES
Series drawing/painting gives an artist a chance to investigate the same or a similar subject over and over again. An artist may want to do this because they find an actual place intriguing – it may be intriguing because of its beauty. It could also be an interesting concept, media or method of work that …
LANDSCAPE – FROM DIFFERENT ERAS
Below are a selection of work from 5 artists from the part 600 years. I can see many similarities in these pieces, as all are representations of what the artists saw of the world around them. Its the interpretation of that world that seems to differ between the eras. In the earlier pieces of Durer …
TACITA DEAN
Below – ‘The Montafon Letter’ Chalk on Blackboard I love the vast scale of this piece. Along with the technical detail, its quite breathtaking! How does the artist map and plan out this type of image? How does the artist know where to start? It demonstrates great subtly of tone. Moving from black to white, …
PART THREE, PROJECT 5, EXERCISE 2: STUDY OF TOWNSCAPE USING LINE
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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PART THREE, PROJECT 5, EXERCISE 1: SKETCHBOOK OF TOWNSCAPE DRAWINGS
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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PART THREE, PROJECT 4, EXERCISE 1, 2 AND 3: PERSPECTIVE
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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