Your composition should occupy most of the paper’s surface. How much negative space do you have left? The question seems to refer to a distinct composition without specifying which one this would be… So I’ll answer in a summary fashion. Some of my drawings occupy quite much of the paper, for example the sketchbook page […]
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Check and log: Drawing fruit and vegetables in colour
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Miscellaneous: Oil pastel experiments
To tackle the problems I had with oil pastels, I made some experiments in the sketchbook and on loose sheets of black and blue paper. This time I decided to integrate these loose sheets into the sketchbook so that I would have these experiments together in one place, rather than distributed across sketchbook and diverse […]
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More artists: Matt Niebuhr
I discovered Matt Niebuhr when I was searching on the web for oil pastel drawings. I came across an abstract drawing of a plaited structure in black and red. It is actually a mixed media work of oil pastel with graphite. I really like it. It is in stark contrast to the mostly naturalistic works […]
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Drawing fruit and vegetables in colour
This project consists of three parts: Using hatching to create tone Using markers or dip pen Drawing using oil pastel I worked on this project for almost three weeks and produced quite a few drawings and around 22 pages of text from my reflections, including the research point on Ben Nicholson and the Check and […]
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Miscellaneous: Mallorca series
I’ve begun working for a series of artworks on Mallorca, the Spanish island. The idea came when I was thinking what I might give my father as a present for his 80th birthday, which will be on August 25 this year. He is very fond of this island. I have been there twice, in 2005 […]
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Miscellaneous: Angkor temples
Recently I saw a TV documentary on ARTE about French artist Bertrand de Miollis who was travelling through Cambodia, making watercolour sketches as he went along. He also went to the Angkor temples. These are ancient Hindu temples in a jungle, protected as an archeological site. I was very impressed by the film sequence about […]
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Miscellaneous: Portraits
Some days ago, I met a friend for a mutual portrait session. My portrait of Claudia was done in charcoal. It was rather sketchy but I found it captured a characteristic expression in her face. While I was drawing, I was fascinated by the light contour resulting from her sitting against the light source, so […]
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Research Point: Ben Nicholson
I began my reading about Ben Nicholson with a Wikipedia article. It mentions that he had been married three times. His third wife was German photographer Felicitas Vogler. I was curious about her but despite her reputation as a landscape photographer, no photograph of herself was available on the net. From the Wikipedia article I […]
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Check and log: Still life – line and tone
What aspects of each drawing have been successful, and what did you have problems with? I think I managed to place the objects well on the paper and arranged them into interesting compositions. Proportions are ok, textures are only sketchy but enough to recognize the objects. For the first still life group in tone, I […]
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Still life: Line and tone
This project was about drawing two still life groups, one focusing on line and the other focusing on tone. I did two pairs of drawing: First I worked on an arrangement of vegetables and made two drawings (line and tone), then I did two more on an arrangement of fruits. Still life of vegetables – […]
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