This is the complete tutor report on Assignment 1, by tutor Diana Ali. Overall Comments Well done on your first assignment and I’m glad that you have worked through it continuously and flowingly but be careful not to rush as the first part is about you understanding the technicalities of drawing and being able […]
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Assignment 1: Reflections
Did you do enough preliminary work before starting work on your final pieces? I did more preliminary studies on the natural objects drawing than on the made objects drawing. For the natural objects, the studies were part of the process of selecting the elements of the arrangement, and also trying out different techniques. They helped […]
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Developing Assignment 1: Made objects
It took me some time after finishing the first drawing before I actually began serious work on the second. I had some initial problems of deciding on a topic. I had spent some time with theoretical musings about the diverse possibilities, but these had not resulted in a concrete plan. It was only when I […]
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Exhibition visit: Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter (*1932) is a well-known abstract and figurative German painter. The New National Gallery in Berlin presents a retrospective of his works, which will be available from February 12 to May 13, 2012. I had been quite curious about this exposition and was lucky to go there today. I didn’t know much about Gerhard […]
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Developing Assignment 1: Natural objects
Assignment 1 consists of two still life drawings: One of natural objects, and the other of made objects. Both are supposed to be at least in size A2, and should be prepared with preliminary studies. These studies should serve to explore aspects of composition and mark-making, and they should be executed with different drawing tools. […]
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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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More artists: Edgar Degas
While working on assignment 1, I’ve continued to read in Bill Creevy’s pastel book. It presents many techniques and illustrates them step by step, and I find it very inspiring. Pastels are a really interesting medium. Creevy also explains some mixed media techniques, like combining pastels with watercolour, acrylics or binder materials. I’d really like […]
Check and log: Enlarging an image
How successful were you in copying the lines from the smaller squares to the larger squares? I think I wasn’t very successful. Enlarging the image only seemed to exaggerate the errors I had made in the small image. I felt no beauty in the large image and I didn’t like drawing onto a grid. Are […]
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Enlarging an image
Enlarging an existing drawing I chose a ceramic coffee mug for this task, and drew a pencil thumbnail sketch of it into a square of 10 cm on a A5 sheet of paper. The mug had some colours on it, but I did not want to include them in the thumbnail, I just focused on […]
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