Continued from yesterday and with another bird. This time a cockerel watering can made of welded metal with a bronzed finish. It’s in the front room which was in shade when I started and then the sun came out and revealed more shape and shadows. I began ambitiously (after yesterday’s birds) with a brown pencil but found it difficult to ‘feel’ the shapes. Conte crayon helped but I need to persevere with sketching to get a good sense of this thing.   Second attempt, still too little tail and no handle but the rhythm of the drawing felt a bit … Continue reading Sketch-fest

It’s not immediately obvious but these are shells! One would make a passable hedgehog. Trying for clean lines with fineliner but somehow losing perspective along the way. This is dated 14th December, the next two are dated the 22nd, the intervening time being occupied by other activities, it being the season it is, and some rather poorly directed searches for still life images that might help. I’ll come to these later. Not exactly a bird’s nest but close. I filled a small wicker basket with pebbles, a plant pot, and watercress in a glass then, as a reaction to the … Continue reading Still wrestling with Part 2

Beginning to find my way around OCA resources and this came up; a review of Penny’s Drawing1, Assignment 3 preparatory work. As I’m on Assignment 2 of the same course, have yet to receive feedback on Assignment 1, and still feel somewhat directionless, this is both terrifying and invaluable. Can I do this? Can I do my own version of this? Can I find what I thought was ‘my style’ and apply it to this? Do I even have a style or, if I do, do I want to keep it? Big questions and, recognisably, the start of the deconstruction … Continue reading Penny Rowe

I’ve been struggling with this for two reasons. As a writer, and prior to that as a clinician and researcher, I was accustomed to a quite clear structure with regard to the use of other people’s words or ideas. Quotes are not often used in scientific papers but in literature, they are and they have to be minimal and clearly referenced. Similarly any supporting or contesting ideas, papers, theoretical references. That feels clear to me. Latterly, in my early (re)-exposure to the art world via local groups, I came across the practice of replication in physical media by copying of … Continue reading Plagiarism, copyright, and fair use

This is the group of artists, film makers, architects, software developers, and activists you might never have heard of but that might be hitting headlines shortly. I came across them a short while ago in the context of reconstruction of the much-disputed chemical weapons attack in Syria. From all available images, from all available sources, they reconstruct scenes such as this in order to bring out the most plausible understanding of what actually happened, and just now they are contenders for the Turner Prize 2018. As a side bonus (to me anyway – reflected glory and all that), they’re based … Continue reading Forensic Architecture