Find out about pentimenti (mistakes in master drawings) and restatements and find examples of them in famous drawings. Log your findings. I started my research with a Google search and as usual, began by reading the Wikipedia page to get a quick overall idea of the term. Wikipedia explains pentimenti not as errors, but rather […]
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Research point: Pentimenti
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Landscape drawing: A sketchbook walk
The first project of part 3 is concerned with landscape drawing. Now the difference to parts 1 and 2 is that it’s about drawing outdoors, which means that I’m looking for good or at least “interesting” weather conditions. I had intended to begin part 3 much earlier and benefit from nice summer weather. But part […]
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Research point: Different depictions of landscape
The course materials suggested to look at Dürer, Claude Lorrain and Lowry’s “images of industrial life”. This research point was to be done before the first practical task, however I departed from the suggested task sequence and approached it after the first exercises. Usually I prefer doing things in the suggested order, but having done […]
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More artists: Henri Matisse
I came across some drawings by Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) by accident. Searching for watercolours by Emil Nolde, I was directed to the page of a commercial gallery which had organized an exhibition of works by Henri Matisse, too, and presented some of the drawings and prints of the exhibition. I had seen some […]
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Assignment 2
I’ve finally completed part 2. I had several occasions where I was near to giving up. I hope I will get on better in the next part of the course. The task of the assignment was to set up an interesting composition of natural objects, and make a drawing using the media of my choice. […]
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Check and log: Drawing animals
What were the main challenges of drawing animals? With the cats, the main problem was that they were moving all the time. This made it extremely difficult to capture any pose or detail. I was often left with an incomplete outline of a cat, with the head or some other part of the body missing […]
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Fish on a plate
Sunday 23 September 2012 I have drawn the fish this afternoon. I chose a fresh gilthead fish. I had bought it yesterday already, but in the evening I was too tired for drawing, but today I took the time and drew, and now the fish is in the oven. I did not want to wait […]
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Grabbing the chance
The task was to grab the chance of drawing an animal whenever the chance arises. Then after practicing in two sessions of several hours, with different animal poses and different drawing media, to take a large sheet and make a drawing in my preferred media. Wednesday 5 September 2012 I began with this exercise yesterday […]
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Research point: George Stubbs
I did a Google image search with keywords “skeleton cat” and lots of images came up. I’m a bit sensitive to the topic at the moment, because Paula is so skinny that one can feel every bone. I’m afraid I’ll have nightmares from studying the skeletal structure of the cat more closely. So I deliberately […]
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Check and log: Drawing plants and flowers
How will your experiments with negative space help your observational drawing in the future? Drawing negative space definitely helps to draw more realistic and natural shapes, and I think whenever I was attentive to negative space the drawing improved. But I’m still at the beginning and need much more practice. The main problem is to […]
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