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Tag Archives: Drawing
Drawing: More ‘Shrink & Line’ Figures
Enjoying just messing around for a few minutes when I get time. Whilst these are pretty rough, along with some of my previous ones, some provide a reasonable start point for tracing and turning into prints.
Drawing: ‘Shrink & Line’ figures
Moving on to the next page in my book I found myself still on very small drawings but this time very sharp lines and angular shapes are used to define the characters. In 20 minutes I drew the following (and … Continue reading
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Drawing: ‘Shrink’ figures
Inspired by a couple of blogs I follow, both owners being amazing at drawing, a couple of weeks ago I bought a book on figure drawing. It’s unusual for me to follow a blog based around the talent of a … Continue reading
Wine and cheese linocut: Final stage
How to focus a mind in turmoil…… Loving this project but my brain has been well over-stimulated and darting in multiple directions, even though nothing much has yet made it onto the blog. First: I drew some cheese. Nice, but … Continue reading
Drawing – still life
This One and Twenty exercise got off to a slow start. After agonizingly drawing the main sweetcorn kernels I realised that time was about up on my allotted 20 minutes. Was I to leave my food in place until I … Continue reading
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And back to pencils ……..
Just a quick cube continuing to look at light sources. Followed by a composition of Okra.
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Still drawing – just differently ……….
I’ve just attended my first Adobe Illustrator course (seriously need this skill for work). Wow, masses to learn. After 7 hours tuition I reckon I’ve almost scratched the surface. Daunted? Hell, yes! Excited? Definitely! Know what I’m doing? Not even … Continue reading
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Feb drawing challenge: Day 10
A few quiet minutes sitting in the garden looking at my terraces. Not enough tonal variety, the wall isn’t high enough for the first garden bed, proportions are seriously out of whack. Poor drawing, need to do better next time. … Continue reading
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Feb drawing challenge: Day 9
A shell. I’ve done this before and got either a very flat unrecognizable piece or some very nice sylised drawings, like this one here. Today I’ve gone for something more realistic. Took about an hour to complete. Fun – hard … Continue reading
Feb drawing challenge: Day 8
A bit of doodling to get the hand moving, then a simple sphere with shadow. Learning how to match the light source and the shadow direction.
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Feb drawing challenge: Day 5, 6 & 7
Slightly behind and only a short amount of time each day, so I’ve got one project completed over 3 days. Continuing along the landscape theme I’ve added more detail than previous days. Day 5: Day 6: Day 7: It’s interesting … Continue reading
Feb drawing challenge: Day 3 & 4
Last weekend a quick stop in the newsagents found me leafing through the magazine shown here. I particularly liked some interesting tutorials and examples of work where landscapes have been roughly produced in a quick time frame without too much … Continue reading
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Feb drawing challenge: Day 1 & 2
I’ve had a busy start to the year with printing and travelling overseas so my normal routine didn’t really start until a few days ago. I’ve set myself a challenge for February: my weekly one-and-twenty drawing exercise is being changed … Continue reading
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Reduction charcoal drawing
Some years ago I tried this style of drawing and I revisited it yesterday in my art class. The subject matter was chosen for its very reduced colour palette, as we were to concentrate on the tonal values throughout without … Continue reading
Examining the skull – well, a kangaroo skull.
Having finished my printmaking course and whilst awaiting assessment I decided to join a class entitled Art Explorations. The write-up was vague, the prerequisite was non-existent and I was assured that it is pretty much a ‘anything goes’ course. So … Continue reading
Assignment 2 Screen Printing
Stage 1 Sketchbook Work
Some ideas for creating source material from which to develop design ideas.
A necklace with shapes I quite like.
The sun went in and the lighting became difficult when photographing. Interesting pink tinge to the second picture. No matter what I do I can’t get rid of it. Each page shows contour line (outline drawing), continuous line (without taking hand off the paper), blind contour (without looking at the page whilst drawing) and non-preferred hand. I explored small areas using the viewing frame but wasn’t particularly thrilled with the abstraction of the drawings.
Splitting the image into smaller parts, rotating, simplifying, colouring and repeating.
Change of subject matter:
Exploring lines. Bars, instrument strings, bridge struts and pylons. Building fascia, window alignment & shape, height.
Windows, glass and building exteriors.
Close up of Federation Square civic centre and cultural precinct created in 2002 in Melbourne, Australia.
The designs on the page above and those below have been developed from this linear fascia.
Shape simplified, rotated. resized and aligned to create different shapes. Colour experiments.
Softening & blending the distorted design with colour (left), then bringing the negative space forward with colour (right). Exploring the positive & negative image in a new alignment.
Pulling out a shape from the negative space.
Experimenting with collage. Blue/grey base layers with small tonal image repeats. Complementary colour repeat motif, larger and more dominant.
Assignment 2 Screen Printing Stage 1
The brief is to initially spend some time working in my sketchbook exploring the theme ‘Man-made Environment’. So I’ve been drawing all sorts of bits and pieces (blog post for these will come later).
I started here with the idea of prison bars, that changed to piano wires, then I considered snapped piano wires springing across the taut ones still firmly held in lines. Next I looked at the space below, within the piano, where light and shade mix and include a reflection of something bright caught in the shadowplay.
I quite liked the idea but I was unhappy with the square shape of the drawing so I put it into Photoshop and adjusted it.
I transferred it onto fabric using Inktense pencils wetting each section carefully to bring out the colour without it bleeding into other areas.
Then I free-motion stitched the red focal area and machine corded the lines in place.
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‘Highly Strung’ by Claire Brach9 x 13cm (unframed). Inktense pencils, free-motion stitching and machine cording.[/caption]
The course manual has some suggested ideas to work with and here I have encompassed working with lines, textures, flat colours, simplification of shape and a reduced colour palette.
For the sake of the course I should probably have stopped at the drawing stage and tried different colours to achieve various moods, changes in line placement and so on – and I’ll get to that. Yesterday I just felt like a bit of fun, I wanted to practice my free-motion machine stitching and create something in a way I had never done before. Continue reading
Tactual Textiles by Claire 