Exercise: Study of a townscape using line I found the instructions for this exercise confusing. What was meant by “use two sketchbook pages”? With my portrait bound sketchbook, the double portrait format wouldn’t work for my idea for this drawing. Why would I have to make notes about weather conditions? I couldn’t make sense of […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Check and log: Perspective
What problems did you find in executing perspective drawings? I did not perceive the task as particularly problematic. Maybe this is because I have acquired some practice with perspective drawing earlier on, before the course. It’s mainly to find myself back into it. I do make technical errors but I think I can improve on […]
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Perspective
Some notes from the introduction to this project Linear perspective First principle: receding parallel lines meet at a point when extended. Second principle: the meeting point changes with the height of the viewer’s eyes Basic terms of linear perspective Horizon line: The eye level height of the viewer, divides the viewing plane in upper and […]
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Research point: Claude Lorrain and Turner
Look at the work of Claude Lorrain and Turner. Write notes on how those artists divide their landscape into foreground, middle ground and background. Discovering the works of Claude Lorrain My research strategy began with a look at Bridgeman education library, because the task implied looking at paintings and analysing them. The initial search for […]
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Ending the pause!
I can’t believe that it’s already September. The official end of my pause from OCA was by the end of April, but due to relocating to New York and all the associated stress I simply wasn’t able to reserve time and space for coursework earlier. Now things have settled a bit. I have a room […]
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