The notes present a table of artists grouped according to style: slick, flat paint; loose thin paint; photo-realism; black and white; colour and pattern; and messy. The task is first to look two (at least) from each category and write … Continue reading Research point 1 – categories of contemporary and historical painters
That’s it, all done and dusted, assessed and graded. For anyone still in the throes of completing this module, and any new starters for as long as it has any relevance, I am leaving the blog here so you can … Continue reading Farewell, Drawing Skills 1
This exercise uses found images again, this time on 10 prepared postcard sized backgrounds – 5 black and 5 white. I used Aquarelle HP watercolour paper which is quite solid and relatively robust, although I discovered it is not up … Continue reading Part 1, exercise 1:2 – black and white
The task here is to use, I think, of one image on different kinds of background using dilute paints or inks of various kinds, and also varnish. I had available acrylic, watercolour, gouache, ecoline inks, and both polymer and spray … Continue reading Part 1, exercise 1:1 – painting thin and small
I had just begun a personal project triggered by the launch of the Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, which I’d watched being built via NASA/JPL’s live stream from the clean room for many months. It was Dr Who back-of-the-sofa nail biting … Continue reading Introduction
This belongs here because of its relatedness. Made on an 8″ x 10″ re-purposed canvas board but extending beyond its margins it comprises the corrugated packaging designed to protect the fragile contents of a parcel which I’ve stained with acrylic … Continue reading Post-assignment work
This picture keeps zipping by on my Echo Show as it cycles through wallpaper art. Some I recognise – there is a van Gogh and some Gaugin amongst other things – so I assumed this artist was in the same … Continue reading Side project – not at all Winslow Homer
Looking at the previous version and thinking of Amelie Matisse’s life – which included doing prison time for being a member of the Resistance in the 1940s – I couldn’t help thinking that she was another underestimated woman who, in … Continue reading Side project – Not-a-Matisse #2
At the time of writing, I have one module in for assessment and the final tutorial for the second is scheduled for tomorrow. I’m not sure what to expect from UPM but if my past experience is any guide, I’ll throw tantrums at it till about halfway through Part 1 and then, when I’ve grasped the new expectations, run away with it like a kid in a theme park. And because I’ve developed an aversion to posts with no pictures, I’ve imported one from PoP to keep things ticking over. Continue reading So here I am on my third OCA module
“Bring on Picasso, bring on Matisse, bring on anybody! I would stand up to them all with a single polka dot!” — Yayoi Kusama She wasn’t kidding. Kusama’s oeuvre comprises intensely detailed but repetitive patterns or aggregations of single style brush strokes, although she has also exhibited furniture and household objects covered in individually stitched phalluses, and latterly some rather stunning 3D installations. In these painting, the marks didn’t have to be identical, in fact some were impasto within a sea of lower profile strokes, and she used these to make nets, sometimes adding colour to the spaces in between. I … Continue reading Side project – FauxKusama
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