Unfortunately, the positive news about the possibility for treatment of Paula’s condition with antibiotics were premature. Further analyses confirmed a different diagnoses. Paula suffers from lymphatic leukaemia. This illness is one of the few that respond quite well to chemotherapy, and I’ve decided that we will give it a try. If luck is with us, […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Exploring coloured media
I understood as the main focus of this project to explore the variety of coloured media that I have at my disposal, with the aim of getting acquainted and finding out what each medium does best. One element of the instruction was also to experiment with stippling and hatching to achieve tone and colour. For […]
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Miscellaneous: Approaching part II
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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Assignment 1: Tutor report
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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