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 son’s angle whilst he hung onto and climbed the local 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 I was trying to capture my son moving around while 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 watercolour paints, but for this piece I wanted to use 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 taking photos I found I was drawn to one pose 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 challenging trying to capture ‘movement’. I opted to draw and 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 Yoko Ono, Peace and Power (April- July 2019). For this 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 lines the human forms are revealed, and interestingly the way 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 this time had on him culturally and artistically. I did Read more…
Following on from looking at Matisse’s, Dance, Marc Chagall, Dance of the Gypsies, wash pencil and pen, 1942 is a lovely sketch I found online. Dance of the Gypsies was for a scene from a ballet called Aleko (MOMA). I really like this drawing because it is delicate and captures Read more…
I got thinking about the representation of the ‘active’ figure and thought another great example is Henri Matisse, Dance, 1909-10, oil on canvas. This large oil painting was commissioned by a rich Russian business man and apparently Matisse himself felt the painting was not a finished piece but more of a Read more…