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. […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Miscellaneous: My cat Paula
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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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Check and log: Using texture
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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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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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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