After two months off the drawing course, I can wait no longer… I’m not officially resuming coursework yet, but I intend to gradually find my way back into the course. The past two months were intensely filled with working on the master’s dissertation. It is a quantitative study and involves lots of statistics. I’ve completed […]
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Assignment 2 Tutor Report
Open College of the Arts – Tutor report Student name Patricia Karsten Course/Module Drawing 1: Drawing Skills Assignment number 2 Overall Comments First of all thank you for submitting project 2 in a very well organized manner. This helps us both to refer to the comments with the particular exercises […]
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Taking a break from OCA studies
I have now completed the most tasks of this project, landscape drawing. There are still three research points to do and possibly another attempt at the large, final drawing. But I will take a break now from OCA studies in order to complete my Master’s studies with the Open University. I hope this will be […]
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Check and log: Landscape drawing
In what way did you simplify and select in your study? Were you able to focus on simple shapes and patterns amid all the visual information available to you? I simplified by omitting details in textures, by drawing the outlines of shapes much simpler than they actually were, and by using tonal values rather than […]
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Landscape drawing: Plotting space through composition and structure
The task was to make a landscape drawing on A3 cartridge paper, this time trying to deliberately establish foreground, middle ground and background using a variety of techniques. The drawing could be done by enlarging one of the earlier sketches or as a new drawing made on the spot. I’m very unsure whether I have […]
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Landscape drawing: Cloud formations
This task was to draw tonal studies of cloud formations in the sketchbook, using charcoal, oil pastel and conté, and with the aid of putty rubber. Sketches should be small and done quickly, capturing different weather patterns and times of day. They also should give volume to the clouds and show movement, with a focus […]
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Miscellaneous: Edgelands
This is a preliminary note for myself because I would like to explore the Edgelands idea further when the time comes. Edgelands is the title of a new post on the We Are OCA blog by José Navarro, and it is also the title of a price-winning photography book. The concept is about “urban abandonment” […]
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Visit to the National Gallery, Oslo, Norway
I went to Oslo in Norway for a day… I loved it. I know it’s very irresponsible from an environmental point of view, adding to ever growing flight tourism and associated pollution, but well… I had many individual-centred justifications for just doing what is possible today which wouldn’t have been possible 20 years ago. The […]
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Research point: Landscape series
Look at artists who worked in series with the landscape, such as Monet, Pissarro or Cézanne. Make notes in your learning log about the challenges they faced and how they tackled them. I began my search as usual with Google, starting with Claude Monet whose paintings I admire intensely. The Wikipedia article on Claude Monet […]
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Landscape drawing: 360° studies
The task was to make four 15-minute drawings of landscapes from a location with open view in all directions, looking to the north, west, south and east without changing position. Instructions also advised to use a viewfinder to find a focal point for the drawing. Thursday 11 October – Schillerpark I did this exercise today […]
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