Clockwise from top left: Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus (in part) 1601; FORESHORTENED NUDE JAMES GWYNNE; Lucian Freud, Reflection With Two Children Self Portrait; Sue’s feet, by me April 2020; Saint Eulalia exhibited 1885 John William Waterhouse 1849-1917 Clockwise from top left: William Rimmer, A Dead Soldier, 1871 (taken from Experimental Drawing textbook, Robert Kaupelis); Next …
Continue reading “PART FOUR – RESEARCH AND REFLECTIONS – FORESHORTENING”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4TSj9SgymG8JjwwVFxSxPvF/the-shock-of-the-rude-a-private-view-of-arts-naughty-bits https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/apr/16/art-activist-barbie-protester-feminist-agenda https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/31/mary-beard-sits-for-naked-portrait-in-new-bbc-programme https://www.tate.org.uk/art/unlock-art-brief-history-art-undressed The naked figure in artistic practice has been with the human race for many thousands of years. It is however, a controversial subject. On the one hand, a naked model is timeless, without culture or creed and without location. The naked model is ourselves, as we are born, without distraction. A …
To help me on the course of study, I joined a local life drawing class that I had seen asking for new members via Facebook. I was quite nervous at joining the group, as I realised I would be interacting with people in ways that may feel a little uncomfortable to begin with. Firstly, I …
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 …
Continue reading “IMPLICATIONS OF THE CORONA VIRUS LOCKDOWN TO MY STUDY- APRIL 2020”
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 …
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 …
Continue reading “Review of My Progress Against Assessment Criteria”
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sue's Blog