This is really my preferred size – it allows for gestural movements and maximises large rather than very tiny marks. I’ve chosen the tubes of paint again, placing them on a black Amazon box that had contained one of those … Continue reading Assignment 2 – painting a collection at A1 scale, dramatically lit
The task is to prepare four sheets of A4 paper with washes in light and dark tones, then to paint a collection onto them emphasising tone rather than line. I had run out of suitable collections, having none to start … Continue reading Part 2, exercise 2:4 – painting on a painted surface
One of the options for this is a stone, which I interpret as a pebble and which gives me an opportunity to dispose of one that must have come as a gift because it bears an image of a ginger Persian cat in an unlikely pose. I have the penguin in mind for this. Early on in the pandemic, I painted large numbers of pebbles and left them outside for people to take home [a big card reminded people about hand hygiene if they took one and keeping a distance from others while they looked]. Someone called out to me … Continue reading Part 2, exercise 2:3 – painting on a 3D surface
The task here is to paint one of the collections using a suggested medium, or acrylics/watercolours/ink on A1 watercolour paper or lining paper. I don’t have any watercolour paper A1 sized and I’ve never heard of lining paper so I’m … Continue reading Part 2, exercise 2:2 – line
I have reached a compromise with this task; the birds made in bird seed of the previous post, some white items on a white ground, shoes from the Auschwitz museum, and hand prints, made by early hominids, dating back thousands … Continue reading Part 2, exercise 2.1 continued
After a lifetime in health care with varying degrees of responsibility, it was a joy to retire and do something less critical. Art would be about footling around with paint and getting charcoal on your nose, and nobody would die if I forgot who Matisse was. I was wrong on all counts except, obviously, the […] The meaning of art — Conboyhillpaintingmedia This is a re-post from one of my OCA blogs sparked by a series of exercises that seemed, in the current context which, in all fairness, the author of the course unit could not have anticipated, empty, trivial, self … Continue reading The meaning of art — Conboyhillpaintingmedia
After a lifetime in health care with varying degrees of responsibility, it was a joy to retire and do something less critical. Art would be about footling around with paint and getting charcoal on your nose, and nobody would die if I forgot who Matisse was. I was wrong on all counts except, obviously, the one about people dying of my sudden-onset Matisse Amnesia. Art has a complex history of decoration, illumination, and exploitation, but latterly has also had a political edge – take Banksy’s various visual commentaries, especially his dystopian fairground, Dismaland. I had been largely unaware of much … Continue reading The meaning of art
This post is replicated from my PoP blog because this module, as the previous one, is likely to be dominated by the threats and constraints placed on all of us by this global pandemic. 15th March 2020. As a note for the chronology of this set of circumstances, and because the relevance of those circumstances may not immediately come to mind in the future, Europe is now the epicentre of the Coronavirus (CORVID-19) pandemic. Here in the UK, those of us over 70 years of age or with health vulnerabilities are advised to stay away from enclosed spaces and to … Continue reading Coronavirus: COVID-19
9th September. This Part is all about collections and the overall task is to put together a number of these, including crockery, utensils, items of clothing, pens and pencils, and personal groupings, and in this exercise, to paint at least … Continue reading Part 2, exercise 2:1 – unusual media plus contextual content appraisal
This has been both a nightmare and a revelation. The first because ‘small’ is a challenge on several levels (all those faculties that don’t work so well as you get older), and the second because some of it did work relatively well despite those constraints. I also realised that my initial choice of twenty found images did not necessarily map well onto the actual assignment: some were really not at all interesting to paint, and some were, for me, impossible to paint. As a result, I substituted a few as the task unfolded. Luckily – or by design – some … Continue reading Assignment 1 – objective evaluation
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