Have you discovered any new ways of using your drawing tools to depict surface and texture? Yes, I have developed more variety in the use of line with dip pen and ink, and think I can extend this to other line-based drawing tools. I guess it will also influence my mark making with pencil and […]
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A drawing with textures
It took me hours of thinking which objects I might choose for this task. I had ideas but found none of them really adequate: – drawing the two scratching trees of my cats: they had rough and varied textures, but they are so tall that they wouldn’t give me “an arrangement of objects”. Instead, I’d […]
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Research point: Max Ernst and Frottage
Taking a break from drawing textures objects (peanuts! – I tried peanuts, this is difficult!), I did some research on Max Ernst. The Wikipedia page gives a nice overview, as expected. Max Ernst (1891-1976) was born in Germany, but later lived in the United States and France. He was married several times. A Google image […]
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Experimenting with texture
Part 1: drawing textures The first part of the task was to select a range of objects with interesting surface textures, and to draw the textures in an experimental way, using pencil or pen, in a series of 5 cm squares in the sketchbook. Then as a second part, we were to experiment with the […]
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