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Project Drawing Fruit and Vegetables in Colour
Exercise Using hatching to create tone. This was a timely exercise because I had been looking at how Picasso used hatching when I visited the current exhibition of his prints at the BM (see starrybirdsartdiary blog). Initially I looked at … Continue reading
Exercise: Still Life Group in Tone
I interpreted this quite strictly, using just three colours to depict tone. I found this an extremely interesting exercise. I returned to one of my favourite subjects, a skull and added the bones of the hand. I didn’t attempt to … Continue reading
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Exercise: Still Life Using Line
I elected to continue familiarizing myself with the use of a dip pen for this exercise and chose some chilies and garlic as interesting shapes to try to capture in line only. I placed them on a Catalan basket to … Continue reading
Project – Detailed Observation – End of Project Notes
Drawing media I found a fibre tipped pen really difficult really difficult in the first exercise, but drawing a single continuous line requires confidence that I lack. Warming up helped immensely. A dip pen was a revelation. I have previously … Continue reading
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Protected: Research point: two artists working in contrasting ways
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Exercise Stipple and Dots (and Blots)
I have a lovely up-turned tree stump surrounded by ferns and geranium phaeum, which I decided would be perfect for this exercise. I sat at 7.30am with bright low light behind me to draw the stump and learnt an … Continue reading
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Project Detailed Observation
Exercise Line Drawing Detail I have really struggled to capture each shape whilst trying not to lift my pen. I also found it very difficult to fill the paper without any guidelines or framework for the mass of the object. … Continue reading
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Protected: Research Point – Mastery of Detailed Drawing
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Project Exploring Coloured Media
Coloured media – pros and cons Pastels variety of softnesses for different purposes hard pencils for sketching and fine detail, good for carrying but don’t drop very soft stubbies for broad brush or highlight accents, harder to carry out fabulous … Continue reading
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