Royal Academy 251st Summer Exhibition 2019 was curated by Jock McFayden RA (b.1950). The animal-themed ‘menagerie’ starts in the Central Hall, where there are inventive and inspiring sculptures and works of art in all sorts of mediums. Works by RA Read more…
During Part 5 I revisited painting my husband, as the last painting I made of him in colour, didn’t tonally quite work. Although, the curtains in my living room are burgundy, in the painting they look too blockly, taking away Read more…
The day after I had sent my portfolio off to my tutor I had the opportunity to sketch my son climbing again. I took one sheet of green paper and a piece of charcoal willow stick to quickly sketch my Read more…
My initial sketches and experiments of ‘figure & head in activity’ did not work. I started by sketching my son hoovering at home in a few mediums but I found it hard to interpret the body in action and because Read more…
Once I had finished the line drawing of my son climbing I wanted to paint using acrylics. I find during this course I have been reaching for the watercolours for an initial wash before adding acrylic paint and then more Read more…
I have been continuing to struggle with capturing my son ‘in an activity’ climbing. I initially went for A1 on paper for a line only drawing pose (around 2 hours, like assignment 4). After sketching my son in situ and Read more…
I feel like this is way harder than I originally thought it would be, depicting the figure and the head ‘in activity’ and even though I’m enjoying the research, life drawing classes and sketching and trying out ideas it is Read more…
At the end of May I took a trip to Germany for a wedding and managed to visit the Museum of Fine Art in Leipzig which had an amazing collection of fine art and an exhibition by the one and only Read more…
When I made my abstracted version of Henri Matisse’s The Dance, 1909, I found it interesting that with so few lines it is still a recognisable image of the painting, (provided one has viewed the painting before). With just a few Read more…
Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890). This was my second attempt to see this very popular and super busy exhibition. The EY exhibition focuses on the young Van Gogh’s time spent in Britain between 1873 and 1876 and the impact Read more…