This was another project which took just ages to complete… and there is still one more task to do which I had overlooked. The resulting feeling is that of having rushed over things and again realizing how much more practice I need to be able to talk about skill, rather than attempts. The project consisted […]
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Drawing plants and flowers
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Research point: Renaissance masters depicting animals
The objective of this research point was to look at how Renaissance masters like Leonardo da Vinci and Dürer depicted animals, to make notes and find some images to include in the learning log. Somehow I got carried away with the topic, realizing that I don’t know much about Renaissance masters and wanting to find […]
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Miscellaneous: Organizing my studies
Subscription to Level 1 Watercolour I’ve subscribed to Level 1 Watercolour as my second course at OCA. I know that it will be difficult to find enough time to squeeze still more into my schedule. I don’t know, maybe it’s out of experience that under pressure, one tends to find very effective ways to manage […]
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Check and log: Drawing fruit and vegetables in colour
Your composition should occupy most of the paper’s surface. How much negative space do you have left? The question seems to refer to a distinct composition without specifying which one this would be… So I’ll answer in a summary fashion. Some of my drawings occupy quite much of the paper, for example the sketchbook page […]
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Miscellaneous: Oil pastel experiments
To tackle the problems I had with oil pastels, I made some experiments in the sketchbook and on loose sheets of black and blue paper. This time I decided to integrate these loose sheets into the sketchbook so that I would have these experiments together in one place, rather than distributed across sketchbook and diverse […]
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More artists: Matt Niebuhr
I discovered Matt Niebuhr when I was searching on the web for oil pastel drawings. I came across an abstract drawing of a plaited structure in black and red. It is actually a mixed media work of oil pastel with graphite. I really like it. It is in stark contrast to the mostly naturalistic works […]
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Drawing fruit and vegetables in colour
This project consists of three parts: Using hatching to create tone Using markers or dip pen Drawing using oil pastel I worked on this project for almost three weeks and produced quite a few drawings and around 22 pages of text from my reflections, including the research point on Ben Nicholson and the Check and […]
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Miscellaneous: Mallorca series
I’ve begun working for a series of artworks on Mallorca, the Spanish island. The idea came when I was thinking what I might give my father as a present for his 80th birthday, which will be on August 25 this year. He is very fond of this island. I have been there twice, in 2005 […]
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Miscellaneous: Angkor temples
Recently I saw a TV documentary on ARTE about French artist Bertrand de Miollis who was travelling through Cambodia, making watercolour sketches as he went along. He also went to the Angkor temples. These are ancient Hindu temples in a jungle, protected as an archeological site. I was very impressed by the film sequence about […]
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Miscellaneous: Portraits
Some days ago, I met a friend for a mutual portrait session. My portrait of Claudia was done in charcoal. It was rather sketchy but I found it captured a characteristic expression in her face. While I was drawing, I was fascinated by the light contour resulting from her sitting against the light source, so […]
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