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Assessment Level 4, November 2020 – images

21/08/2020 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Angry COVID Face Wrong PPE The Hub Cafe A Bend in the Adur Tin Pots Hill Recreation Ground Klimt’s Gold Recreation Ground Trapped Landscape Mask Eyes On – a commentary on people’s perceptions of being hidden and suppressed by mask-wearing. This post may be updated or edited at any time prior to submission. Continue reading Assessment Level 4, November 2020 – images

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Part 1, exercise 1:4 – 10 and 20 minute paintings upside down

20/08/2020 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Not beating about the bush, I find this sort of task difficult because meaning drives my painting and reducing an image to shapes strips it of that. But I know this image because I used it in the previous exercise … Continue reading Part 1, exercise 1:4 – 10 and 20 minute paintings upside down

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Part 1, exercise 1:3 – quick and focused

19/08/2020 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

18th August. This task requires an assembling of five of my found images, overlapped; an A3 sheet of paper, and water-based paint. I have run out of HP watercolour paper so I used black cartridge, painting the blocks of the … Continue reading Part 1, exercise 1:3 – quick and focused

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Farewell, Drawing Skills 1

15/08/202007/02/2025 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

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

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Part 1, exercise 1:2 – black and white

12/08/2020 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

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

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Part 1, exercise 1:1 – painting thin and small

11/08/2020 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

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

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Post-assignment work

28/07/2020 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

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

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Lockdown art #One

07/07/2020 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Strange times, as they say. I’m lucky to have a garden because I’m likely to be confined to it for some while yet, but fulfilling some of the requirements of a Painting degree has been a challenge. Models/sitters? Exhibitions? Plein … Continue reading Lockdown art #One

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Part 5, project 2, exercise 1 – preparing a textured ground

18/06/2020 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This task requires some additional materials such as paper, rags, bits and pieces to stick onto a support and to then paint over, using the texture in the structure of the painting. Of the several available scenarios, I’ve chosen ‘rough … Continue reading Part 5, project 2, exercise 1 – preparing a textured ground

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Part 4, project 5, exercise 3 – working from a photograph

06/06/2020 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This has been my predominate practice of late and so I hope I’ve begun to show already some of the learning points this exercise is designed to cover. Specifically, interpreting rather than transcribing, attending to composition and being selective, and … Continue reading Part 4, project 5, exercise 3 – working from a photograph

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