Today I have “submitted” Assignment 1. In this case, the submission consisted in an e-mail informing my tutor that I had completed the work on part I, referring to the appropriate sections of this blog and including the two assignment drawings as attachments. I don’t know if this is a proper and digestible form of […]
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Miscellaneous: My cat Paula
While on Assignment 1, I took some days off drawing because my cat Paula fell ill. I had her examined by the veterinarian. He was very concerned about her condition. I’m just hoping that she will recover. It’s very sad to think that she might die in just a few months, as the vet believes. […]
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Looking over the fence: Contemporary art
One of the requirements of the OCA curriculum is to study contemporary artists, but I’m having difficulties with this. I can only seldom relate in a positive way to artwork typically presented nowadays in galleries or museums of modern art. I tend to find it too conceptual, with an emphasis on the attempt of being […]
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Tutor correspondence: From electronic learning log to blog
I had started by putting my reflective notes together with images of the coursework into an electronic document, and spent much time on obtaining a nice layout. But then I realized that every time I added a phrase, the whole layout changed, because images were sent from their current to the next column. I concluded […]
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Miscellaneous: Pastel roses (continued)
When I had looked at the final drawing later that evening, I realized that the dark green leaves did not have enough contrast to the background, which was why the image appeared a bit unclear to the right side. It was like dark objects before a dark background. I slightly reworked the background and made […]
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Miscellaneous: Pastel roses
This was some extra work in pastels. From Bill Creevy’s book on pastel drawing, I had taken ideas for mark-making and tried out some basic techniques, like dusting or colouring in layers. Then I wanted to make an attempt with the linear approach to pastel drawing, as explained in the book. The basic idea is […]
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Miscellaneous: Pastel mark making and tonal study
I would like to get better at drawing with pastels… I did a brief internet search for tutorials on this technique and read some tips here and there. I saw too many photorealistic pastel drawings of pets and portraits, this is a style I don’t like. I’d like to do it differently… To get some […]
Drawing skills: Secondary reflected light
When asked in the Check and Log section for Part I, Project 3: Tone and Form, whether I found it difficult to distinguish between light from primary source and secondary reflected light, I realized that I wasn’s sure whether I had understood these concepts. A Google search brought up several sources, of which I have […]
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Drawing Skills: Hatching
Looking for some additional technical information on hatching as a drawing technique, a Google search directed me to the Wikipedia entry for Hatching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching). To summarize “an artistic technique to create tonal or shading effects by drawing […] closely spaced parallel lines “when lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called […]
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Tutor correspondence: What to include for assignment submissions
In the first weeks of the course, I was still unsure what to include in the blog and what would be relevant for assessment. I tried to get an idea right from the start by asking some more questions. Patricia: Friday, January 20, 2012 Hello Diana, […] – Are you interested in seeing work […]
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