Still technically on hiatus but distracted by an over-stuffed SSD which means finding a new computer with a larger one. Much hunting and talk of terabytes as the current puny one sits there bright red with excess content. So back … Continue reading Roots
Over time, I’ve come to realise two things. First my close vision isn’t up to small scale, it has me cross-eyed and visually furred up; and second, I’m less keen on canvas board than I was. Put together with my … Continue reading Landscape – using up canvas board
There are two main parts to this task, the first being to review all my landscape paintings to consider which have been the most appealing. This is my collection from the current module and what strikes me is the colours; … Continue reading Part 4, assignment 4 – landscape
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
There is only one exercise requirement for project 4 and as things stand, it’s impossible to achieve. Working with photographs is the next project but, as with many instances during this course, I’ll need to do that here. I’m going … Continue reading Part 4, project 4 – painting a landscape outside
Probably the most timely of projects and exercises, given the current situation! The exercise is about choosing a view from a window and, after making a number of sketches, painting a final composition that reflects a mood. At the moment … Continue reading Part 4, project 1, exercise 1 – from the inside looking out
This is a landscape project and I’d been considering working a bit more on my Tin Pots Hill piece but the sun came out and water is more attractive, especially down the estuary. I find holding a sketch pad in one hand while standing to draw (and taking a seat and an easel to an outdoor venue isn’t possible) so I take photos to bring back home. In this instance, I found I preferred a panoramic view I’d taken earlier so I ran this through Paintshop Pro to reduce it to grey-scale, then manipulated the contrast for drama. This is … Continue reading Part 3 project 3 composition
Part 2 doesn’t include landscape but my sketchbook does as I’ve kept up the impetus, and one sketch drew comment for its looseness of mark. Could I maybe try that on a larger scale and still keep the informality? This is the sketch. It’s from a photo I took a little while ago of a round hill called Tin Pots for reasons people locally couldn’t quite pin down for me. It’s on my jogging/walking/nattering route so I see it nearly every day. In the summer, it’s quite bright and yellow, this time of year the colours are brownish and the … Continue reading Tutorial follow up
Breugel‘s Winter landscape with skaters and bird trap 1505; Monet‘s Grand Canal, Venice 1908; and Stuppin‘s Catskill Moon 2013. Three landscape artists whose images caught my eye when I was trawling for examples of the genre. I already knew of Breugel and Monet but hadn’t come across Stuppin before and actually thought it was one of our local artists, Sarah Duffield who uses very bright and largely unrealistic colours for her work. I was driven to have a go myself on the black sugar paper I’d pasted into my sketchbook, just to see what would happen. These are Faber-Castell pencils and … Continue reading Part 3 Project 2, landscape
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