This task is essentially one of demonstrating a grasp of linear perspective which is where two parallel lines converge on a distant vanishing point, like railway tracks disappearing into the distance. Obviously, in a house the vanishing point is likely … Continue reading Part 2, project 4, exercise 2 – simple interior perspective.
This task allowed use of the same still life set up as in the previous exercise and so I was able to benefit from having made sketches and a painting to help teach my eye and brain how to direct … Continue reading Part 2, project 3, exercise 5 – still life in colours reflecting mood
The task is to make a still life using two complementary colours and white. I chose sap green and cadmium red. First some sketches using a charcoal pencil. Then drawing out with a watercolour pencil on … Continue reading Part 2, project 3, exercise 4 – still life complementary colours
The objective of this exercise is to demonstrate the influence of similarly toned or complementary colours on each other (ex 1), and experience the illusion referred to as ‘successive contrast’ (ex 2). Exercise 1 requires a base layer of mid-grey over which a series of squares is filled with colours of differing relationships. Squares 1-5 follow the brief, using ultramarine blue as the central colour with the surrounding squares filled with similarly toned colours including cadmium green, payne’s grey, and white mixed with the original blue. The sixth square contrasts the blue with its complementary colour, orange. In the next … Continue reading Part 2, project 3, exercises 1&2 – contrasts
I have three metal birds – sparrows possibly – unreflective and almost an absorbent black. They’re textured but it’s hard to see. In contrast there’s that totally flamboyant beetle – shiny, bright, iridescent amd as big as the birds. I … Continue reading Part 2, project 2, exercise 4, still life man-made objects
I am on something of a treadmill at the moment and so I’ve taken the brakes off. This exercise is the second in this project leading towards and eventual still life assignment, and requires the use of natural objects. I … Continue reading Part 2, project 2, exercise 3 – still life natural objects
I’m using an A4 sketch book for this, trying to keep things in one place after earlier experiences selecting which books had which best selection to send off with an assignment. This top page is untreated and I used wet-in-wet to make some general flower shapes before mopping with paper towel and training some of the pigmented edges in directions indicative of petals. When it was dry, I used a limited palette of reds and oranges (the flowers) and blue/green for the stems and leaves. Meanwhile, I applied a layer of white gesso to the page beneath for the next … Continue reading Part 2, project 2, exercise 2 still life with flowers
The task here is to find a ready-made still life – that is a collection of objects already positioned somewhere in the home that draw the eye – then make a series of sketches to get a feel for the … Continue reading Part 2, project 2, ex 1 still life sketches
A little post hoc but I remembered suddenly I’d been advised during my tutor’s feedback to have a go at making line drawings of faces, and so I’ve been recruiting from internet sources some random images, largely of older people … Continue reading Part 4 – line drawings
This is a challenge. I’ve discovered that I need my target image to stay still while I negotiate its clints and grykes but that seems to be difficult even when I have only myself to instruct and draw. Two ‘interesting’ … Continue reading Part 4, project 6, exercise 2 – drawing my own head
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