tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38601402882834091442024-03-12T17:10:57.637-07:00mytexturedworldArt of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-59288812105891227812019-08-29T03:32:00.000-07:002019-08-29T03:32:07.856-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image for sketchbook day<br /><a href="https://evrymom.tumblr.com/post/95315216678/isis0isis-fractured-slate">https://evrymom.tumblr.com/post/95315216678/isis0isis-fractured-slate</a></td></tr>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chose this image of fractured slate to work on today because:</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are only two colours, both of which are in my palate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to practice drawing sharp lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The overlapping slates of different sizes and shapes are interesting in their own right, and keep the eye moving</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dark places<br />Black pencil</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding the base colour blue<br />I didn't have exactly the same blue as the image, <br />so made it using this colour for the base and a more turquoise blue (see left of sketchbook) on top.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding the second colour I discovered the need for yellow and bright salmon pink as well</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />What I learned:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using the colour intensities for perspective works well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need a pale sky blue pencil!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part of the appeal of the image was the overall intensity of colour, which is missing in my sketch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shadows work a lot better in brown than black or grey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lines aren't sharp enough, and the pencil lines detract.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next time: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pick a smaller region of the image</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abstractify</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use gouache for the colours, with intensity all over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What it looked like when I did this:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like the way this looks (apart from the poorly focussed blur).<br />I didn't have time today to add colour</td></tr>
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Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-8184251772479830302019-06-18T06:50:00.000-07:002019-08-29T07:02:57.192-07:00Peonies<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went to dinner with a friend who has amazing taste, and she had a massive bunch of extraordinarily beautiful peonies. So for a thank you note and (late) birthday card I copied a photo of peonies in silk painting and made it into a card.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traced the lines and the lightest patches<br /> with gutta onto the stretched ponyo silk</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Added the pinks, and decided on a dark green background <br />as the best for showing up the pink</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gutta was washed off and when dry the silk was ironed and mounted onto a card </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And framed it to cover the raw edges</td></tr>
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Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-4295362838038382932019-05-14T05:57:00.000-07:002019-09-11T10:59:20.603-07:00Wasp moth coat: the hood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This particular coat has a transparent hood designed to look like one of two pairs of moth wings. These images trace the process of designing and making them.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "ヒラギノ角ゴ pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , "ms pゴシック" , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; text-align: left;">typesofinsects.com/</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "ヒラギノ角ゴ pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , "ms pゴシック" , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; text-align: left;">I wanted to make something as striking as this wasp moth, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "ヒラギノ角ゴ pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , "ms pゴシック" , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; text-align: left;">particularly the shininess of the wings,<br /> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "ヒラギノ角ゴ pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , "ms pゴシック" , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; text-align: left;">and the bright orange and black contrast.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "ヒラギノ角ゴ pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , "ms pゴシック" , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; text-align: left;">When I think of moths I think of how fluffy they are,<br /> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "ヒラギノ角ゴ pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , "ms pゴシック" , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; text-align: left;">so the way I made it had to allow for softness.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I drew the wing pattern <br />
onto PVC with a sharpie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I tried out some <br />
acrylic paint (which wasn't going to work)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The black was cut from<br />
a remnant of soft black <br />
suede</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After some more exploring, the plan was to make a hood out of a large pvc collar, so that when it wasn't raining the upper wings lie over the woven wings of the moth on the upper back of the coat. But when it was raining it could be zipped up into the hood, with the wing shapes beside the face.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inspired by Elsa Schiaparelli, I made buttons from supersculpy<br />
in the shapes of developmental stages of the wasp moth<br />
(My commissioner preferred a zip, so these aren't in the final design)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is part way through machine-stitching the soft black fabric and zip onto the PVC collar, <br />
using tissue paper to stop the machine sticking to the plastic.<br />
Yes, that is my kitchen table.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-39331835762651768952019-01-29T04:15:00.001-08:002019-01-29T04:17:11.490-08:00Looking at SS 2019 colours and patterns<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now I've explored my own body colours a bit I'm looking at the fashion colours for SS 2019 to see how they compare and work out which colours to focus on now. <a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/c7650/ss2019/" target="_blank">My collection of pins for this season</a>. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the marvellous https://fashionvignette.blogspot.com/<br />
Pantene colour of the year<span style="color: #990000;"> <b>living coral</b></span><br />
The more intense versions of this are <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">75%</span> </b>colours for me</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Too intense for me</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Princess blue 100% only if muted</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Sweet lilac 25%</span></b></div>
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Hm, they're all variations on pink with no other blue or green than the rather too pure princess blue...</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fiesta &</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Living coral & </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">aqua</span></span><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">with neutrals </span></span></div>
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and Stella Jean vintage look, all of which work for me.</td></tr>
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These large blocks of strong pastel colour always <br />
appeal. I could wear the lavender 25%, <b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">jade (100% pastel)</span></b>,<br />
sky blue 25%, pink 25% and <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">princess blue 100%</span></b><br />
I like the abstractness though, and <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aha! I can work with this.<br />
Variations on calm tweed/checks</td></tr>
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This appeals to me, goes somewhat with 30s style, and is in some of my colours<br />
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">mint green, </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">cherry red 100%, </span><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: white;">neutral grey 100%, </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">bluegrey100%, </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">pink, </span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">sky blue</span></span><br />
It would be an influence rather than the whole idea.<br />
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I saw the way this design is interesting to look at both macro and micro, is definitely about London, and is practical, all at the same time. And it made me want to know who designed it and what else they have done.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Turns out it was a design consultancy called Wallace Sewell (<a href="http://www.wallacesewell.com/project/transport-for-london--underground-moquette" target="_blank">Their website</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some other things they have done can be seen on their website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They obviously have a fantastic way with colour, using unusual combinations in a way that looks fun and friendly. I particularly like the rug they designed to celebrate 100th anniversary of the underground, using all the colours of the lines on the tube map. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finding out about this has led me to some of the other designers who have made fabrics for the underground since the Metropolitan line opened in 1863.</span><br />
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<a href="https://londonist.com/london/transport/all-the-tube-moquette-patterns-bitchily-critiqued" target="_blank">Another take on the designs</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/c7650/london-underground-fabric/" target="_blank">My pinterest board about this</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/c7650/enid-marx-designs/" target="_blank">Designs by Enid Marx, one of the 1930s/1940s designers</a><br />
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I find the 30s designs very appealing. There's something about the geometric/ repeating organic patterns that looks organic and interesting. Something worth exploring in my sketchbook session.<br />
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I've also be reviewing 30s fashion with a view to making some clothes for myself. <a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/c7650/1930s/" target="_blank">My 1930s pinterest board</a>. It seems to me that there are three 'styles' there:<br />
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1. Madame Vionnet, and more affordably Ghost bias cut dresses. These are the ones that famously sexy women have worn in the evening. They float around the curves and make the wearer look longer and more feminine.<br />
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2. Day dresses, often of cotton or silk, in patterns like the 30s ones I've pinned above. These tend to have a high waist (higher than natural waist in some cases) and an unstructured bust, with the length hitting at the widest part of my calf ie not flattering, and while I love the patterns I can't get away from the feeling that they are intrinsically dowdy. (On me at least).<br />
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3. Sports clothing. By which I mean beach pyjamas, jodhpurs, tailored straight skirts with some movement at the knee or below, tailored wide-leg turn up tweed trousers, little silk blouses with some feminine embroidery at the neck, lumpy home made jumpers and cardigans with ribbed waist and sometimes puffed sleeves. Shoes are brogues with a heel or riding boots. Hair is generally short and wavy. This is the one for me! I've started making a 30s influenced woollen biker jacket which I'll post when it's done.Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-86714207896857471532019-01-21T13:42:00.000-08:002019-01-25T13:43:00.393-08:00Investigating my favourite colours<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the more memorable things about 'Interaction of Colour' by Joseph Albers is that each of his students tended to prefer colours that had the same qualities as their own physical colouration. This has been percolating round my brain for a few years now and it seems to be time to pay more attention to this aspect of my making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I once 'got my colours done' by a lovely woman with House of Colour, and this is what she came up with: I am a summer which means that the natural colours of my body, eyes, hair etc are cool and muted (at least compared to pure colours). She then tried lots of actual coloured fabrics against my face, and came up with a hierarchy of which colours are best for me to wear. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hanky made out of my body colours as divined by House of Colour.<br />
The large rectangles are the colours which best complement my natural colouring.<br />
The squares are next best, and the triangles good only in small amounts.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see that my very best colours are all dark or bright, although not as dark as black or as bright as neon. They look darker and brighter on me than they would on a person with a 'winter' colour range.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So how does this professional analysis relate to the colours I have chosen myself? If Joseph Albers was right, I should be naturally choosing colours in the summer range. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Skin stole (detail) has a base of slightly nude pink, with marks in mid-pink and coral, all muted colours. But perhaps that's cheating as it's meant to be like skin and naturally I used mine as a base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One the right is the outside and below the inside of a piece I made to express how different I feel inside and out. You might think that the outside appearance is more cool and clear, but in fact the pale blue is slightly greyed. The inside is also slightly muted and despite the hotness of the impression it gives it is actually a cool pink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the left is a cloak which has </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the right is a rather unsuccessful drawing of a duck skeleton. Looking at it now it seems obvious that the colours</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are the first two colours. The red was easy - just a touch of yellow added to the magenta. The green a mixture of cyan and yellow. where they overlap they make the dark purple of the hanky. The actual green is more like the deeper one where the two green lines overlap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I want them to bleed into each other I haven't put any gutta on the silk, so the edges are irregular and it looks pretty messy. I was using a hairdryer to try to reduce spread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is striking that it is made up almost entirely of medium-dark colours, with some brights, meaning that there's not a lot of contrast. I wonder what it would be like to put one or two of the paler of my body colours into this square? How would the contrast affect the way the other colours appear? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>What I have learned from this colour exploration</u>:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joseph Albers was probably right!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I need to work out how to make cornflower blue </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These colours blend together beautifully, so if I stick to them my work will blend together too (and if I don't it will look awkward and jarring, like the duck skeleton)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the overlapping colours haven't mixed (see the vertical green row), presumably because they were dried out before the second was painted.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These dyes are very radiant so don't look much different against the light.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Try redoing this square with cornflower blue too. With gutta separating the colours, but sticking to the idea that where they overlap gives another good colour. That way I wouldn't have to use the hairdryer and the colours would have more chance of mixing well on the overlapping squares.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Redo the square without gutta (which looks too white) with one or two of the palest colours from my palette. Or with the silver gutta I have which would fit into my palette.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Experiment with a smaller selection of colours to find out how the colours interact with each other.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the colours are darker than I can make with a single application, and it would be good to have a record of all the colours in different degrees of intensity, so I could try out each colour in one, two, three etc layers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Try to replicate the fjord pattern.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Repeat the exercise on my loom.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ah! This might help to explain why I want to paint all the rooms in the house rather intense moody colours! (And why my 'winter' husband would rather they were all stark white).</span>Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-36125333837190222862019-01-20T04:55:00.000-08:002019-01-25T12:56:28.420-08:00Exploring geological shapes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a starting point for some sketchbook experiments, I have taken some geological shapes and colours that appeal. </span><br />
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this photo reminds me of hermits caves <br />
I can't help wondering what's lurking inside.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Malachite always catches my attention. The colour to start with - it's so very intense!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the shapes keep your attention going round and round - and intrinsic excellent composition - it's unpredictable but all at one with itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is also something so interesting about the geological layers in rocks. I particularly like the way they combine the hardness and the friability in one. You can't help seeing the immense timeline involved in making this shape.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is actually a drawing! by the very patient Kate Atkin<br />
http://visualsundae.com/post/26174216691/kate-atkin-drawing</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And sometimes the colours are so vibrant and complex.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It reminds you that the most intense colours are usually made from rocks.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">https://www.pexels.com/photo/cusco-peru-rainbow-mountains-south-america-371464/</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1082467<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And look at the complexity of this image. Fantastic!<br />rock-273392_960_720.jpg</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I haven't been able to find the kind of striations I am looking for (which I'm sure exist!) which look a bit like a colourful bendy supermarket code bar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What do these images that look beautiful to me have in common?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- intense colours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- wide tonal range from pale to dark</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- repeating shapes that despite being repeated are all different from each other </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- the awesomeness of nature </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to work with all of these images, but for next time it's going to be the malachite.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">https://www.minerals.net/mineral/malachite.aspx</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sample 1:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Using felt in a variety of colours and paper glue I made spirals to capture some of the qualities of the appearance of malachite.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I made it from double thickness strips which I then cut in half to produce a flatter top surface. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The four colours weren't working together, and they were far from flat on the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this sample I used only three of the colours, reflecting the light, medium and dark tones of the actual malachite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the dark brown didn't quite work with the others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I noticed that using strips all starting at the same point and then rolling them created some unnecessary resistance to making the final shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sample 3:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These quiet circles were made without the neon green. I was getting the hang of the glueing process by now and it shows in the relative neatness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sample 4:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the right is the same one cut into 2 with large scissors.</span><br />
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For this concentric circle sample I sewed the strips together instead of gluing them, thinking that it would be easier and allow me to create more interesting shapes than gluing. This first one I made a soft triangle, with two colours in the middle, just like a shape on the wallpaper above.<br />
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Here are samples 5 & 6 joined together. The colours are different because the light is much lower now.<br />
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I was able to introduce some of the more organic aspects of the shapes here - different depths of different colours, incomplete circles. These certainly worked better than the spirals, but the sewing meant they took a lot longer to make.<br />
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<li>There are three colours (light, medium and dark) plus accent lines, and it's likely to be difficult to find felt in the correct tones. Neon doesn't work as the light colour as it comes forward in the wrong way</li>
<li>Fabric glue works better than paper glue!</li>
<li>The finished concentric circles are soft, appealing, and probably hardwearing.</li>
<li>They look best when there's a spot of one dark or light colour in the middle (or both)</li>
<li>They are not circles! They are 'compression fit' shapes of different compositions and sizes that gives malachite some of it's variability.</li>
<li>Making the strips the width of two circles allows me to sew the bottom too and make two at once. They are not identical because there is a loss of structure and some of the layers at the bottom.</li>
<li>Having variable thickness of the colours is part of the organic look</li>
<li>Gluing is quicker, but sewing is much tidier and allows deliberate shaping.</li>
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<li>Make a lot more concentric circles with organic type pattern breaks</li>
<li>Use PVA or fabric glue instead of paper glue</li>
<li>Make longer cylinders that I can cut into slices</li>
<li>Try different slicing tools</li>
<li>What if I make some with thick but frayable fabric?</li>
<li>Or different textures of fabric?</li>
<li>How does it work if I sew all the slices in the cylinder separately before slicing?</li>
<li>How can I pack them together to enhance the compression fit effect?</li>
<li>What if I make the same shapes but with flat cut-out shapes superimposed on each other?</li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the things I have been doing recently is being more deliberate about finding out what is beautiful to me. I want to spend today collecting together some of these things, and think about what it is that I find attractive about them.</span><br />
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Turns out I only like these when there's some interesting texture or repetition.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">https://www.waysofenlichenment.net/lichens/</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The difference between beautiful and interesting in other ways seems to be whether the image appeals to my head (eg cabbage fractals) or my sense of humour (all those round octopus suckers) or a sexual sensation, or something I would describe as a feeling of fullness in the middle of my chest. I mean my heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Certainly there are more of these ones than any other. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are all nature photos because that's the pinterest board I am working off. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps another day I could look at other boards!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These seeds hold meaning for me in that they make me think of the self in various ways.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As if the seed were a metaphor for beingness (which I suppose it is in a real way too).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can imagine making many more small approximately spherical unique objects with this metaphor in mind.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The inside of this one is less mysterious and witheld,<br />putting the emphasis on the fragility of the cover.</td></tr>
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This jacket is the third in my series '<i>So you think you know me?</i>' which items of outerwear which express both how a person is seen, and how they feel inside. This one is for someone who is ESTJ in Myers Briggs, 'the supervisor' who I have dressed as a security guard. My initial thoughts about how to express this steady reliable type were like this:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It seems to me that this type, more than most, would have a rather conventional appearance initially, with recognisable allegiances and clear black and white. Since I love Alexander McQueen clothes there are some of his military style clothes here, but in the end I went for a more conventional police type uniform on the outside. </td></tr>
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The way it works is that the outside is how the person appears to others, and the lining is how the person experiences themselves. For this one the inside was more difficult to visualise. The person who inspired it is often under a lot of time pressure, and described feeling 'inner turmoil'. My sketchbook research for this included these pages:<br />
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This process taught me something about using these techniques, and also that they was not going to give me the effect I was looking for. The running stick men were not really warm enough to relate to, and as you can see in the photos above running in our culture is sometimes associated with success or athleticism. I wanted the lining to feel physically intense with a pattern that indicated that it could be hellish. Which brought me to flames and clocks/ stopwatches. </div>
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I did some sketchbook work and came up with this design for the back lining. During this process I realised that rug hooking would give me the texture I wanted for this part of the jacket. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the first sampler I made. You can see that the gutta wasn't properly laid down through the fabric, and this led to some leakage of the dye. I like the way this works, with different mixtures of colours in the 'overlapping' areas. These colours I made by putting the colours one on top of the other while still wet (rather than mixing them in a palate). <br />I used black and white as colours of the background squares, and this gave some attractive results.</td></tr>
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WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS SAMPLER:<br />
- thin gutta lines work, as long as you check them<br />
- dye colours are bright and clear, so better not to mix them too much if you want that effect<br />
- works better if you do each colour one at a time, so they are of approximately equal intensity<br />
- this sampler has too many colours and looks busy<br />
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- better not to wet the fabric first for small patterns like this one, because it encourages leakage through or round the gutta<br />
- the background was too raw without any dye on it, so I coloured it a very pale blue which was better<br />
- fewer colours is better<br />
- pastel colours together looks ok, as long as there's no leakage, but the impression is totally different from intense colours<br />
- magenta with a drop of yellow makes a good pink<br />
- using pastel colours, you have to be more careful not to put too much water on, so wait for the colour to dry if you want to change it<br />
- I obviously need more practice with this!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As practice in applying gutta and using pastel colours, <br />I decided to make an opera scarf for my husband, <br />so picked some of his clothing colours, sky blue, lime green, and charcoal grey<br />and tried out different patterns of circles and squares in my sketch book.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I pinned the silk to my frame, and drew equal squares on the underside using a fabric pencil.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then I drew round a jar lid using the squares as a guide.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When the gutta was finished, this is what it looked like.<br />I have some way to go before I am skilled at this.<br />But that's why I'm practising!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I attempted to graduate the intensity of the colour from one end to the next.<br />You can see that because of the rectangular shape of the scarf, and the square shape of the frame,<br />the silk only took up half of the frame, <br />and the lack of frame on one side had a corrugating effect on the silk.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what the finished scarf looks like.<br />I like the pattern very much - it looks regular but interesting.<br />The colour variations in tone and intensity are not clear enough here. <br />More practice with graduating the intensity of colours is required.</td></tr>
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<br />Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-81995017046104570842018-01-11T09:09:00.000-08:002018-04-22T10:42:36.278-07:00Silk painting explorationMy first attempt at silk painting was on a French exchange, and I still prefer the method used there at that time - drawing with gutta on pongee silk and then filling in the spaces with silk paint or dye. I am attracted to this negative space way of thinking about an image, and also the flexibility it gives you. But the thing I like most particularly about it is the kind of luminous colour you can get this way. <br />
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I want to get better at doing it, though, and so last month I set myself some exercises to do that.<br />
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First, a couple of leaves that caught my eye:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While I liked them both, the one with the more<br />dramatic colour contrast and cleaner lines<br />appeals more for this project.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These leaves had fallen from a bush round the corner from <br />where I live. What appeals to me about them is <br />the unusual combination of colours, <br />and the way they show the plant's strategy <br />for surviving the winter - <br />withdraw everything useful that you can <br />from the leaf before letting it go. <br />The green parts still have chlorophyll, <br />the pink/tan parts have been drained of it along the veins. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beauty of death. A sketch starting to expore the leaf's visual properties.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one shows that I had fun exploring it in various different ways - <br />this one using applique and embroidery.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made some sketches to help me think about<br />composition, in the context of a square scarf.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And I tried out some colour combinations,<br />and texture marks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a sampler I made to explore how to use silk paint, coloured gutta and sharpies <br />to create this pattern on a piece of silk </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I did another sampler, trying out the effect of dropping paint colours next to each other at various distances, <br />in spots and lines, to learn for myself how best to apply them for particular effects. </td></tr>
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What I learned from doing this scarf:<br />
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- Silk paints are paler than they look when wet<br />
- You can't change the gutta lines once they're on the silk<br />
- I was excited, and started before I was completely sure which colours to put where. Which led me to put them in the wrong places!<br />
- Sharpies can make texture subtly or blatantly.<br />
- The hole on the lid of the gutta bottle needs to be a bit smaller to make the line a bit finer.<br />
...and most importantly,<br />
ALWAYS GET THE COLOUR, TEXTURE, SHAPE AND COMPOSITION COMPLETELY SETTLED BEFORE BEGINNING!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the scarf with adjusted colouring, with edges roll hemmed.<br />You can see that this one has the dark blue-green in the centre of the sections rather than pink <br />(IE reflecting the leaf more accurately), the texture is more subtle, <br />being made with different intensities of the same colour paint rather than with sharpies,<br />and the green is deeper and richer, which works better I think.</td></tr>
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As a textile person I find myself drawn to the idea of overall composition as a way of focussing on and exploring natural textures visually.<br />
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<b><u>Tacita Dean</u></b> (from www.mariongoodman.com)<br />
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Chalk on blackboard<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail from Fatigues (E), showing that the written annotations are date and time, and an arrow saying 'direction' - not sure whether it says 'narrative direction', and it seems to have been written above and rubbed out.</td></tr>
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5 framed photogravures in 10 parts on Somerset white satin 400gr<br />
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Work that is not obviously landscape has included films of a series of blackboard images, or of a butterfly on a wall. Film is often there in her work either as a medium or as a way of looking at something that includes the idea of time. Eg Quatermary - the intricately detailed landscape seems to be divided up into a series of stills, making one aware of the imposition of structure (perhaps time, perhaps something else) from the viewer on the natural shapes. Why print it on satin? I don't know - perhaps to give it a smoother texture than paper or canvas?<br />
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<b>This overlapping pattern appeals. Why? It has a lot of movement in it. It is a bit like bunches of grapes hanging heavily on the vine. Growth, fruit, sweet earth, the attraction of ivy.</b><br />
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The ones pointing right look odd to me. Cartoon spikes, but not quite.<br />
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<b> I think this interlocking pattern on the left might be rather attractive as a whole big pattern. Like Prince of Wales/ dogtooth pattern in a way. Woven look. </b><br />
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The right one would make an interesting border but not on it's own.<br />
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Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-81911176819434449872015-12-05T08:42:00.003-08:002015-12-06T03:23:31.325-08:00Trying out composition on my sketch walk<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The instructions for exercise 1 do not actually tell me what I am expected to do! They imply, though that I should go back to the place I did the Project 2 drawings, and rework them adventurously.<br />
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Anyway, for this exercise I returned the park where I had done my original drawings of clouds and landscape scenes. My idea was to go back to the one with the path crossroads, but when I got there I could see that I could pick a vista which was more amenable to the composition ideas explored in my last entry. Reasons for this were that the detail in the foreground would have to be of the path (not very exciting), and the distant vagueness and blueness would end up being in the tunnel between trees (a bit of a cliche). So I looked for a view with trees in the foreground (which have interesting textured bark), something in the middleground, and an interesting distant object or two. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was my first attempt - the trees were interesting in themselves and I could imagine having fun with their texture and the details round their bases. In the middle ground were some other trees, and a bar of houses with some white painted windows and other detail (which I have sketched in here as boxes within the bar). In the distance is a fairyland group of skyscrapers in the City of London. I didn't manage with this pencil to show the shapes or the grey-blue colour of this distant object. It was definitely separate from the rest in real life, with finer lines and bluer colour. Re the composition, I thought that the focal point of this arrangement is actually a relatively empty space in the middle point of the rectangle! Not what I was aiming for at all. Even if I could get the city buildings to obviously be in the distance, they would be in the wrong place in this composition to be the focal point. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My next try was portrait, just to see what happened to the image.<br />
This of course led to there being only part of the trees visible in the foreground, <br />
and the detail being in the form of twigs and leaves rather than bark texture.<br />
The middle ground detail is more rudimentary, and I felt the need to give it <br />
a bit more depth with the charcoal. The distant towers look almost alien <br />
floating on the horizon, as the blueness is too much. <br />
Again the focus of the picture is the clump of trees below the city <br />
rather than the city itself. This may be because the whole picture space <br />
is divided in the wrong place, leaving the city dead centre rather than just off centre.<br />
And because the portrait format flattens the depth.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the same sketched, cropped to put the city on the golden section line vertically.<br />
This has the side effect of making the rectangle less narrow in relation to its height.<br />
It seems to have the effect of making it more the focus, at the same time as making the<br />
twig detail at the top more accessible to the eye movements, and the city looks more at<br />
eye level than it did before. While it's better, I'm not sure its what I was after in fact, <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the same sketch, cropped the other way, so as to put the city at the<br />
golden section the other way round. I think it works much better than the<br />
previous ones, with a feeling of it being infinitely far away and unattainable,<br />
like a fairy tale castle (which is what it felt like in real life). The<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using a square format, I felt the need to frame it in the foreground. I thought it would be interesting to use the drooping branches in the composition to 'point' towards the city, which would mean that it didn't have to emphasise itself in the same way to become the focal point. I dropped the blue altogether for this one, and the middle ground needs work too, but the idea, with the city as the target of the branch vectors has potential. There is lots there for the eyes to move around with, and the contrast can easily be adjusted in places to draw the eye around.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last composition sketch on this walk. I put the middle ground and foreground tree at 5/8 positions, and the city just above the horizon. As I noticed in the duck sketch above, the close-up tree on a landscape format actually makes the eye look past it to experience the full space and depth of the image, ie the focus becomes the city rather than the tree. I added some directionality in the trees on the left and contrast in the middleground (especially on the right), to keep the eyes moving round the image. The tree, and the ground to the right of it, need more detail.</td></tr>
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<br />Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-72890239653313197322015-12-05T00:44:00.002-08:002015-12-05T06:50:48.957-08:00Composition Research I started learning about composition for this topic by reading the section in 'Contemporary Drawing: Key concepts and techniques' by Margaret Davidson (2011, Watson-Gupthill Publications NY), and in my sketchbook thinking about how each idea related to my reworking of my assignment 2 piece.<br />
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<b>Universal Fundamentals of Composition</b><br />
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Hence the feeling that if there is a lot of water around the duckings, that the intention is to emphasise the size of that.</div>
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I hadn't actually thought of it in this way before - that there is a message in the shape itself. Duh!</div>
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Even if you try to bring the viewer focus to the object itself by making the object enormous, all it does is make you look past it to the depth and breadth of the image again, just because of the landscape format!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PORTRAIT FORMAT<br />
Using a rectangle in this orientation automatically conveys a feeling of<br />
an enclosed, more intimate space, with less depth to it, with the focus<br />
more on the object itself.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PORTRAIT FORMAT<br />
This relative flatness and focus on the object rather than the<br />
space holds true even when the object is relatively small, if the<br />
format is vertical.</td></tr>
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Other formats, according to this book, are imbued with this kind of meaning to the extent that they refer to the oblong shapes above. I thought I would visually think about this in reference to clothing eg a hoody being nearly but not quite portrait format would suggest relative flatness. Unless you make it into a landscape rectangle deliberately.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MODIFIED PORTRAIT SHAPE <br />
Oh so flat- looking - decorative rather than representational</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MODIFIED PORTRAIT hoody<br />
Even referring to the actual three dimensions of the body doesn't make it<br />
stop looking flat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LANDSCAPE HOODY<br />
But magically, putting in a horizontal format creates the illusion of space where<br />
you know there isn't any.</td></tr>
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UNIVERSAL FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPOSITION<br />
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EYE LEVEL<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LOOKING DOWN ON THE IMAGE - Landscape<br />
The landscape format still makes you see space.<br />
Looking down on it makes the viewer feel powerful, and the object look small, contained, restricted, powerless<br />
These ducks are obviously on a pond, rather than free, simply because I am looking at them from above.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LOOKING STRAIGHT ON - landscape<br />
This makes the image more personal and familiar<br />
Perhaps this duck even has a name. I found myself sketching in a domestic scene, with depth suggested by the landscape format, the intimacy prompted by the eye level.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LOOKING UP AT THE OBJECT - landscape<br />
This makes the image more imposing/ huge/ possibly dangerous<br />
Am I going to get kicked/ eaten?!</td></tr>
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After these revelations, I tried looking at portrait format from above, level and below to see whether the effect was altered with the format.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FROM ABOVE - Portrait<br />
The words that come to mind are squashed, <br />
inferior, rejected, dejected, cramped<br />
disrespected, dismissed, forgotten</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPFoJGggJrUrifexvOTawwYEPd8P4Vk_ijWpmtM1R13MRny_1byVqQsp5Q7d0ZD-imeT4a5vlwexUKfq4TV0TkjXlq4z4Tmg3JKjREG5MCd2fmjz5PBaMmahHPo2ZZU6ZUVy0w3sW2tcd/s1600/portrait+straight+level.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPFoJGggJrUrifexvOTawwYEPd8P4Vk_ijWpmtM1R13MRny_1byVqQsp5Q7d0ZD-imeT4a5vlwexUKfq4TV0TkjXlq4z4Tmg3JKjREG5MCd2fmjz5PBaMmahHPo2ZZU6ZUVy0w3sW2tcd/s640/portrait+straight+level.jpg" width="322" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">EYE LEVEL - portrait<br />
This gives a very straightforward what you see is the plain truth<br />
rather flat image with little in the way of subtlety or nuance.<br />
Like a childrens' book or a scientific illustration - factual.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FROM BELOW - portrait<br />
On a pedestal, looking down it's nose at me,<br />
puffed up, grand, out of my reach,<br />
The Duck God</td></tr>
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EYE PATHWAYS<br />
Thinking about balance in a drawing, and the path the eye takes across and within the picture, it helps to think about the things we are naturally drawn to:<br />
1. Faces<br />
2. Vectors (arrows, pointing things, or directional marks)<br />
3. High contrast points<br />
4. Power centers (either side of the middle of a horizontal rectangle, or just above the middle of a vertical one)<br />
5. Focal points created by the artist for the viewer to return to repeatedly (or deliberately have no focal point)<br />
This list was condensed directly from Margaret Davidson's book.<br />
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I did some sketches thinking about how to make a composition for my duck drawing that would draw the eye round the picture to come back to the eye of the mother duck.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">USING COMPOSITION TO DIRECT EYE PATHWAYS<br />
First, the format is landscape as I want to give a feeling of space.<br />
The images are larger than in my original assignment drawing so that the space is the one between the duck and her duckling. I think the power centre of the image is the part of the skeleton duck wing which has the markings on it (because of the parallel lines perhaps?) But the viewer most likely enters the picture through the eye/head of the mother duck, just to the right of the centre (1). This would lead either to the vector of the beak, or down to the power point. Following the vector (2) the eye reaches the high contrast duckling (3), and from there through the other beak/ vector back to the power centre. There may be some movement along the ducks back, which would give some balance to the image, but I think there may be room for some use of background contrast or vectors to balance it vertically a bit more.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SYMMETRICAL BALANCE<br />
Attractive but static<br />
Re: meaning, there is a formality to this that brings its own meaning <br />
that trumps anything else you might want to say, unless you use it deliberately.<br />
Eg to contrast something wild (or out of the pattern) against the formal arrangement.<br />
I could I suppose have one skeleton in a formal balanced arrangement of rubber ducks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ASYMMETRICAL BALANCE<br />
This is the elaboration of the image of the mother and baby ducks above, <br />
but using detail and contrast in the background to keep the viewer looking.<br />
More complex, subtle and engaging - I think this is something that <br />
would make me continue to look at an image after I'd had it for a while. <br />
Not so much about meaning, but about viewer satisfaction!</td></tr>
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THE GOLDEN SECTION<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Golden Section or Golden ratio - proportion of 5 to 8 which is thought to be<br />a frequent ratio in nature and therefore intrinsically satisfying for human brains to look at.<br />Has been used by classical and contemporary artists, architects etc to guide composition.<br />There is also a rule of thirds which is that it looks interesting <br />to have images on the lines between thirds of the paper.<br />I didn't explore these ideas today.</td></tr>
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OVERALLNESS<br />
Deliberately creating an image with no focal point or eye pathway, giving a different kind of unity and balance. This can either be by having a uniform texture over a symmetrical format (eg a square), or a different format with marks with equal emphasis so the eye moves across the surface evenly with the same level of interest in everything there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skin close up<br />An example of overall composition (well, almost, as the difference in focus in some areas does produce a slight focal point)<br />Thinking about what ideas this brings into the mind of the viewer, I'd say it makes us more aware of the detail, and lose some of our perspective on skin as a familiar useful thing that doesn't need our attention.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Could I make the great patterns and colour variations of the bones of the duck skeleton 'become' the overall composition<br /> in a way that would not produce vectors and focal points? I don't know, but I could try!</td></tr>
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Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-90720323463119710842015-12-05T00:31:00.000-08:002015-12-05T00:43:58.698-08:00Reworking Assignment 2I was advised to rework the assignment - trying out a larger range of compositions<br />
- thinking about the effect of the relative size of the image within the background<br />
- trying out different ways of drawing water<br />
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What was I thinking the drawing should be about?<br />
<i>'what I kept coming back to was the lovely photo of a duck with her ducklings on a , and the difference between what a duck looks like and the strange distortion that I see in my mind's eye.'</i><br />
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How could changing the composition make this contrast clearer?<br />
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<br />Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-18069071408365153712015-12-05T00:06:00.000-08:002015-12-05T00:07:49.655-08:00Perspective<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">than this one with a person receding in to the background.<br />
And a bit more of the train tracks behind.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How different the effect of this photo........</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1fBcprhZfCvrnlVVr1wDARUMd2-Veddh7VlHdoaisGofWUTf_YojhkJB1MFkDgoz6Dvi7uIqDeIhsFeV1HZZseke_iH8IFhJ3T-3ci_1FPxkaiIIvTzePt22bb5MD_ZKABQBDZOZjUpc/s1600/IMG_2447.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1fBcprhZfCvrnlVVr1wDARUMd2-Veddh7VlHdoaisGofWUTf_YojhkJB1MFkDgoz6Dvi7uIqDeIhsFeV1HZZseke_iH8IFhJ3T-3ci_1FPxkaiIIvTzePt22bb5MD_ZKABQBDZOZjUpc/s640/IMG_2447.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putney Bridge, boat race day 2015<br />
- straightforward vanishing point on the horizon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken Summer 2014<br />
Dramatic river valley in South Africa,<br />
with references in the foreground to show scale.<br />
Reminds me of Japanese prints</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The same valley without foreground references shows how<br />
the distances and sizes are much less obvious</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue pipes shrinking into the distance. Foreground wires <br />
and tiny curving buildings give another reference <br />
to the positioning of the viewer.<br />
Photo taken for first textile art module</td></tr>
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Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-78377639301014892112015-10-29T07:43:00.003-07:002015-12-05T00:28:14.481-08:00Landscape Research Point continued...Some landscapes from early 20th Century which explore very different ways of painting landscape.<br />
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Paul Klee <i>Landscape with sunset </i>1923<br />
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Flat, shapes and colours<br />
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Klee S<i>tation L112</i><br />
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<i>What would happen if I tried simplifying all into shapes and colours like this?</i><br />
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Georgia O'Keefe <i>Lake George - Autumn</i> 1922<br />
Vilcek collection<br />
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The trees are very strongly rounded - sensual.<br />
<i>Try overdoing it like this</i><br />
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Greyed colours show the low light<br />
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Oscar Bluemner <i>No. 6 Valley </i><br />
Simplified shapes again, this time curved.<br />
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Oscar Bluemner <i>No.3 Port beacon</i> from Vilcek collection<br />
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Oscar Bluemner <i>Port Amboy West (Tottenville)</i><br />
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Emphasis on the geometric, with the tones and colours secondary. <i>Try it!</i><br />
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Stanley Spencer <i>Cookham Flowers in a Window</i><br />
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Detail is important but hasn't overcome the shapes of the roofs and hedges.<br />
<i><br /></i>Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-32835504634379616922015-10-29T06:47:00.002-07:002015-12-04T23:47:41.913-08:00Landscape in contemporary textile artLooking at how some textile artists work with landscape. With help from www.textileartist.com<br />
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<u>Heather Collins</u><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forest floor<br />
Heather Collins<br />
handmade fabric, free machine embroidery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of leaves from Forest Floor<br />
Both images from heathercollins.co.uk</td></tr>
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This sculpture gave me a wow moment when I saw it. I really enjoy the intricacy of the detail and the realism. From her website it is obvious that she is inspired by the textures and details, like me. I need to work on seeing the bigger picture as well.<br />
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<u>Fiona Robertson</u> is good at this. Her embroidered pictures of the Hampshire countryside show the whole view seen by a walker (rather than just a small part of the forest floor!) It's also interesting to see how her sketches translate into final pieces.<br />
<a href="http://www.fionarobertsonartworks.co.uk/landscape-embroidery.html">http://www.fionarobertsonartworks.co.uk/landscape-embroidery.html</a><br />
Looking at these landscapes with 'range of tone' specs on, I can see that the ones with the widest range from dark to light are the most successful in showing depth (eg the red and orange leaves one she used for the header of the page, and the dark path through the yellow flowers are much more direct and atmospheric than 'first signs' or 'autumn view' - although they both use colour beautifully.<br />
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<i>Looking at this I think I should have a try doing a single sketch in different degrees of tonal contrast, to see what happens to it.</i><br />
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<u>Carol Naylor</u>'s landscapes are more expressive than realistic, and use colour in interesting ways.<br />
She also deliberately uses the distorting effect of the machine embroidery on duck canvas.<br />
<a href="http://www.carolnaylor.co.uk/gallery/gallery10.html">http://www.carolnaylor.co.uk/gallery/gallery10.html</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carol Naylor Diamonds and Rust<br />
from a Spanish landscape</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sea of Lavender<br />
Carol Naylor<br />
That image, of a field full of lavender flowers, is one which you never forget.<br />
I notice that she has not put in the flower stalk detail in the foreground, and in fact that would distract from the movement towards the ridge of pale yellow in the middleground.</td></tr>
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<i>I could do that sketch in different combinations of colours too, to find out what that does to the image. </i><br />
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<u>Heather Dubreuil </u>makes art quilts out of fabric she has dyed and then fused and stitched. They seem to be mainly of urban landscapes. They are of a size to be displayed on the wall like a painting. Here are a few examples:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rooftop terrasse<br />
abstract in some ways<br />
makes you think</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Santa Cruz de Tenerife<br />
reminiscent of Klee <br />
partly because of the flatness I think<br />
and the limited range of colours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Villagio Toscano<br />
The texture and colour intensity<br />
contrast between the foreground and<br />
background are very effective.</td></tr>
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These are much more blocky than the other landscapes which reflects what urban landscapes are like. It is more difficult to see a metaphorical or other meaning in these.<br />
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<u>Caroline Dunn</u><br />
<i><u><a href="http://carolinedunn.weebly.com/landscapes.html">http://carolinedunn.weebly.com/landscapes.html</a></u></i>
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Through this link, 'A walk around the block' a piece created from a sketchbook walk much like the one we've been doing in the course. She has left the sky, except in the places where the birds are flying.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter Landscape in the Dales<br />
Caroline Dunn<br />
This has a very strong sky threatening the landscape with the darkest and lightest tones, and the freest marks.</td></tr>
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<i>I could try using different degrees of freedom /control in drawing style to contrast natural and man-made.</i><br />
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<u>Laura Breitman</u><br />
Another detail person, but this time with an eye on the whole image.<br />
<a href="http://laurabreitman.net/collage/landscape/">http://laurabreitman.net/collage/landscape/</a><br />
These have a very accomplished feel to them. Attention to detail, composition, colour and tone. Very impressive and beautiful too. There is no need for meaning when it is so well done.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laura Breitman <i>Looking up</i><br />
Collage in fabric</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of 'looking up' showing that<br />
it is made of fabric collage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laura Breitman <i>Sunset</i></td></tr>
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<i>Note to self - all those composition sketches and emphasis on range of tone etc are worth it!</i><br />
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<u>Thinking about the ideas in <i>Contemporary Drawing</i>, what does <b>the use of textiles as medium</b> bring to these pieces? </u><br />
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Heather Collins' <i>forest floor </i>- it focusses my mind on the impressive feat of producing something like that out of textiles. IE it stops being about the wonderful colours and textures of nature and becomes about the skill of the artist in duplicating it. More so than a painter? Perhaps. Because we are less used to seeing this kind of technical skill in this medium, maybe?<br />
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Laura Breitman's pieces, though, I had that awed feeling, but it was much less important than the experience of looking at something beautiful and evocative. I suppose that the use of the printed fabrics (some printed herself for the purpose) in collage add to the depth and resonance of the image.<br />
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Fiona Robertsons farm landscapes - I think that using textiles makes one aware of the stillness of them - the contemplative pace of both the sewing and the walking through the landscape. The colours are very intense in places - is that easier to do with dyed fabric and yarns than with paints?<br />
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Carol Naylors machine embroideries - definitely brings a distortion to the ground that drawing would not necessarily bring (or bring in a different way with the water effect on paper). The stitches distort the canvas in a way that makes you aware that the plants change the shape of the ground they grow in. Also machine stitching is intrinsically linear, reflecting the lines made by linear ploughing and planting of the lavender.<br />
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Heather Dubreil's art quilts - Not sure what it brings - would the same images made of coloured paper or painted in oil have less impact or interest? I don't think so necessarily, which suggests that the use of textiles is not adding any particularity to this piece of work. (But I could well be missing something).<br />
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Caroline Dunn's landscapes feel more personal, the walk round her home, and are made in traditional quotidian manner by sewing. To me this adds warmth and homeliness to her images.<br />
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Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-32784401703914266882015-10-25T09:21:00.000-07:002015-12-05T00:40:54.612-08:00Landscape - drawings<u>A walk in the park</u><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charcoal and pale grey conte crayon in sketchbook.<br />
Looking at it now I can see that there needs to be more of a middle tone behind the trees and sign.<br />
Also that there should be at least one person or dog!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little house hidden behind huge bushes. I am drawn to these kind of scenes, <br />
where you are pulled in to something half hidden.<br />
The difficulty with this one was differentiating the highly textured bushes from the house, <br />
which was quite well hidden behind and between them. Also that the tone of the bushes was had to get right.<br />
Someone I know was jogging and spotted me and I didn't manage to keep going for much longer with an audience.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I enjoy looking at this view because of the feeling of space. It's difficult to believe it's in the middle of London.<br />
The paths across the grass cut it almost geometrically, taking into account the undulating shape of the ground.<br />
In the distance, the detail isn't obvious, and I made a note that I don't have to know what's actually there, just what the tone changes are.Aware that there is more detail in the foreground because of the grass and dead leaves at the edge of the path I'm sitting on, but I didn't think of drawing them in at the time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one was done as it got dark, in a little courtyard between two buildings.<br />
There was a lot of contrast between the darkness of the tree and the light coming <br />
from the windows. I used a charcoal pencil and a B pencil, and a rubber. <br />
I'm pleased with the way the leaves on the ground came out, <br />
and that the perspective is not too far off.</td></tr>
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<u>Sketchbook variations exploring tone and colour</u><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake with ducks - tone only, using black and silver pencils on white paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake with ducks using temperature of colour only<br />
The green was a little darker than the blue which complicated matters.<br />
Putting in the yellow showed the highlights which were not in my 'tone' sketch above.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake with ducks using tone and mark as suggested by tutor.<br />
Lost a bit of tone with the detail again, especially at the edge of the water.<br />
Enjoyed doing the water this way. Could try doing clouds like this too.</td></tr>
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<br />Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-9732807439436398862015-10-19T09:22:00.000-07:002015-12-04T23:49:01.934-08:00Landscape 360 degree sketchesThe idea was to sit in one place, and do 4 sketches, turning a quarter of the way round a circle each 15 minutes so as to have a completely different view. This also has the advantage of showing you, as it did me, that you don't have to deliberately pick a view in order to be able to get a reasonable composition - because you get to chose where the edges of the picture are.<br />
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I was in Cheltenham and found a bench on the footpath between the station and the town centre which had reasonably open views on all sides.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one of tree and railings took me a bit more than 15 minutes<br />
because I got caught up with the detail of the tree.<br />
I used charcoal, graphite, and grey conte crayon, and the white of the paper.<br />
The way natural things appear between railings is appealing, and <br />
I wonder if I could use that as a pattern for something.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one of a streetlight looks now as if there is snow on the ground, but it was grass. I didn't quite know how to show the grass and the leaves fallen onto it other than with small shadows like I did over to the left under the bushes there. I can see now that I got the perspective wrong in the right half, and that I forgot about some of the tree trunks. And the man walking is far too large! </td></tr>
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<br />Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-62625521877019820602015-10-15T09:06:00.000-07:002015-12-05T00:27:56.166-08:00Landscape - research pointLandscape is such a huge subject for artists. It's natural to want to depict the parts of the world that we live and move in. The exercise is to research artists from different eras who use landscape as their main subject, and some suggestions ahve been made - Albrecht Durer, Claude Lorrain, LS Lowry, George Shaw, and Sarah Woodfine. I'm going to have a look at those, and follow my preferences to see what else I can find.<br />
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<b><u>Albrecht Durer 15th century</u></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Albrecht Durer, Landscape with Cannon</td></tr>
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I know and admire his drawing and woodcut work for its detail. Feeling awed at the time and focus it must have taken him to just sit and get it all down.<br />
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This one, of landscape with canon, gives me this feeling. There's a quality of messiness in the landscape which reflects what it is like to try to take in all the detail, and makes the viewer feel all business. Theres a feeling of space in the valley, probably due to the contrast of it being much less detailed, and then the detailed village cutting across in the middle background. The size and detail of the tree and the stones on the foreground ground give something of a frame to it, and emphasise the perspective. The presence of a cannon and soldiers in this rural scene must have some meaning, but not sure what 600 years later.<br />
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However, what I found on further exploration of his landscapes, was that many of them are obviously sketches, and that he was probably the first artist to use watercolour for landscapes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Landscape near Segonzano in the Cembra Valley<br />
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This one is an example - I was in doubt as to whether it was by Durer until I spotted the detail on the furthest hill, which is very much like the other works I am familiar with. (And the signature!) What I see here is:<br />
Composition - that furthest, most detailed and dark hill at a sweet spot in the composition;<br />
Colour - subtle variations in the watercolour across it, with the most colour contrast at the horizon<br />
Tone - sketched in to suggest shapes in the foreground, detailed and more intense on the hill to focus attention<br />
Unfinished - some filling in of intermediate levels of tone and detail on the hill to the right, suggesting that this was a sketch he never finished. This and the use of watercolour makes it feel remarkably contemporary.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Albrecht Durer Landscape with a Woodland Pool<br />
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This is another of his watercolour landscapes - BM says '<i>This is one of his most sensitive and atmospheric portrayals of nature' - </i>thought to be outside Nuremberg.<br />
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Again, it has the look of a sketch done on site, with no particular meaning other than to show what he sees. There is an apparently unfinished part in the bottom right. I find this one a little unsettling, presumably this being what 'atmospheric' means.<br />
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Tone: There seems to be more light in the background than the foreground, with the areas of lightest tone being just underneath the strong clouds, and in the untouched white paper on the 'beach' on the right, and the strongest tone being in the nearest parts of the pool and the detail of the clouds and pine tree tops across the painting 2/5 or a third down.<br />
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Composition: The most intense parts are the foreground of the pool, and the clouds above at the golden mean reflecting this and intensifying the heaviness of it close to us. There are green pines in top right and green grass bottom and bottom left giving a sort of diagonal band of detail. Opposite this are two areas of bleakness in the truncated trees middle left and empty ground bottom right.<br />
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Colour: The colours are apparently natural colours, with not much in the way of blueing or greying due to distance. One of the things that make it look like a sketch is that it looks like he was using a limited palate of colours and not mixing much. The grasses in the foreground are suggested by the brushstrokes and addition of a bit of blue.<br />
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This one is more comfortable to look at, with the familiar awed feeling regarding the detail and accuracy of his drawing. Obviously a sketch as it stops completely outside the areas of interest to him.<br />
Composition is therefore less of an issue, but there is lots of interest here which keeps your eyes moving round. This is provided by the areas of deeper tone (middle, top left and bottom left), and one of greater tonal contrast at the 2/5 line vertically; by the areas of detail which correspond broadly to the tone areas; and by the colour contrasts at bottom left, and the higher horizontal lines of bluegrey in the orange.<br />
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There is a feeling of hugeness which can only be because of the tiny spindly trees.<br />
And of the warmth of the orange/ sepia colour, again presumably because of the contrasting grey-blue colour. This one has a lot more evidence of mixing colours to get them right.<br />
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Looking it up online, trefileria appears to mean wire factory. Can this be right? Is this the 15th century equivalent of that? With a millstone in the middle! Not sure. The composition, with the buildings so close they crowd into the space, makes this landscape more of a study of the angles of the buildings and their relationships to each other. Durer has used tone to make them three dimensional, and this and colour to show that the landscape behind is receding into the distance. The detail is in the bottom left building, and the more intensely dark doorway in the front mid-right, and there is again a contrasting diagonal from left back to front right. There is an obvious area of vagueness in the middle ground. I'm not sure I understand the message or meaning of this painting. And there is something a bit blocky about it that I don't 'get'.<br />
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This ink line drawing is refreshingly 'simple' after the watercolour paintings. No tone, other than that given by greater concentration of detail. There are large blank areas and a dramatic diagonal line in the composition which is satisfying as well as illuminating the perspective. Again the detail is in the further parts of the harbour rather than, as one might expect, the nearer boats, drawing the eye into it.<br />
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This detailed sketch in ink and wash in 2 colours is part of his liber veritas (book of truth) which he used as a sketchbook and also to record his paintings so people couldn't copy them. It is of an actual country dance at Malvern Castle, but the composition is carefully contructed according to classical rules. The zigzag of the cows, dancers and castle is pleasing, and the looming trees frame it off centre in a typical way. The two colours of wash (brown and grey) are used to provide a range of tone, with the deepest tone being at bottom left and in the trees to provide the classical framing. The lightest tone in the sky next to the darkest tree, and in reflection at a classical section point in the middle of the dance. It is very romanticised rather than realistic, suggesting that it is intended to be taken as a rural ideal to entertain and delight rather than a document of record.<br />
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This is a more natural looking landscape - a sketch done during Claude Lorrain's visit to Rome. Again composition is very important, and indicated by tone, but in this one it is simpler and less mannered, giving the drawing a more spontaneous look to it. Done in ink, wash and chalk.<br />
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Here are some of his more familiar 'ideal' landscapes, which he did for aristocratic patrons - apparently he was shrewd and died wealthy. He was friends with Poussin, also known for ideal landscapes.<br />
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Claude - View of La Crescenza - <i>oil on canvas</i><br />
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Claude: The Ford<br />
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Claude: Queen Esther approaching the palace of Ahasuerus<br />
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Meaning: These landscapes are deliberately constructed for entertainment and to allow his patrons to show off. Claude landscape paintings were important to my mother and therefore part of my fine art education and development. To me they represent elitism and the appropriation of art by the aristocracy (and the plutocracy) deliberately separating themselves from the other people of the world. We are so rich/ educated/ refined, that you couldn't possibly appreciate fully/ deserve what we have. Perhaps this is envy speaking, but I like to think it's because I enjoy my more visceral response to nature, and to landscapes which capture the combination of unpredictability and complex repetitiveness in nature. Even his trees look as though they were made by skilled craftsmen rather than by the tree tapping the sunlight. I obviously feel strongly about this but don't quite know where to go with it. Perhaps I will work this out a bit more while I'm doing this module!</div>
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<br />Art of Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05961709808335462142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3860140288283409144.post-79910262747942961352015-10-12T08:45:00.000-07:002015-12-05T00:27:41.026-08:00Landscape - cloud drawings Exercise 1: Cloud formations and tone<br />
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Ok, so I took a long time to get round to this one, because I was daunted at the very thought of trying to draw clouds. And some days there didn't seem to be any. Or the whole sky was grey and flat! But that was of course just an excuse and in the end I went out to Brockwell Park and found some good ones.<br />
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This was looking down a hill at some looming grey clouds in a pile on top of each other.<br />
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For this one, I noticed that the colours were not just grey and white, but that there was a more creamy colour in the mix, and I used chalk to put those parts in.<br />
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Again, it's a bit vague-looking, but more like the real thing.<br />
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I noticed this cloud that looked as if it had lacy edges. I think my shaping of the cloud was a bit more successful on this one. I tried putting the lacy edging on but it came out very much larger than it was in real life. The lines of pale grey cloud around it were there, but there was more graduation of tone.<br />
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This one was done on a different day, from the window of a train on a very wet grey day. You can see the blue right at the bottom in the only place where the sky was visible.</div>
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I was quite pleased with the way this one feels heavy and grey, and the diagonal shapes in the cloud.</div>
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