Such powerful drawings! Using tone to more than suggest movement and direction. I can see from this picture how development of tonal drawing skills can improve my own work. The pictures can remain monochrome – not needing colour to enhance them at all. Tonal work is a skill all of its own. My own pieces …
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WILLIAM TUCKER
Charcoal Drawings These drawings are big bold and heavy. They are abstract but suggest form and weight. The shapes they make are pleasing and intriguing – like watching smoke rising from a joss stick. The pieces are decorative and monochrome. I can see that the artist enjoys the effect of the charcoal stick. pressing heavily, …
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, …
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 …
Part 2 Intimacy – Research Point 3 Domestic Interiors
MARY COZENS WALKERS WORLD ANTHONY GREEN royal academy org Anthony Green’ images of interiors open up like boxes – so the viewer has a 3D view of many of a room’s surfaces and planes. As well as being a really clever idea and detailed work they allow us a very intimate look at the life …
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Part 2 Intimacy – Research Point 2 Positive and Negative Space
I chose the examples below to show how artists incorporate positive and negative spaces in an effective way. I particularly like the work of Alex Katz, as the pieces convey energy and emotion despite being blocks of colour. I think this is achieved through the composition itself – the angles of the trees and flowers, …
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Part 2 Intimacy Research Point 1 Still Life
I did some reading and net research into the development of still life as a genre. The research took me to Egyptian times with tomb decoration – where objects to go to the afterlife with the deceased were represented. Then, to Roman times – with decorative pieces on the interiors of homes and buildings. I …
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Image experiment
A photo of my Assignment 1 piece with a sunburst filter – I quite liked the effect
Reflections on my Progress
Introduction I started ‘Drawing 1’ knowing my technical skills and confidence with drawing need much input and development. I always considered drawing as a means to an end – just as a technical map that is required before starting the more exciting, rewarding, immediate act that is painting. I am quite an impatient person and …
Research Point ‘Two Trees’
This drawing if a fabulous example of how tone creates atmosphere. The dark tones between the trees allude to mystery, the unsaid and the unseen. The space feels oppressive, apprehensive, brooding and is ‘dark’ in all meanings of the word. The darkness of tone almost makes the viewer fearful for what lies beyond. It creates …
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