I have neglected the poor old blogosphere as a result of moving house and other trivia. However, I'm back! (fanfare) and what's more, I have learned something new.
I went on a fantastic 4-day course in May, run by Sarah Holliday (wonderful artist) at Waterperry House in Oxfordshire. The course was entitled "Developing The Artist Within" and I can thoroughly recommend it to anyone who has or might have an artist within. :)
The theme was development. We had plenty of still life subjects as well as the stunning gardens of Waterperry House itself.
Here is what I produced, in the order I produced it. Comments welcome.
I did make other sketches and things, but these are the more finished pieces of work.
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| Blind contour drawing of a still life set-up. |
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| Same still life in oil pastel with wash over. |
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| Same still life in acrylics - trying to paint overlapping shapes separately - needed transparent media, really. |
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| Starting to get somewhere identifying delineated, overlapped shapes as pattern. |
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| Part of the set-up. Line contours, painting inside/up to lines. |
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| Same idea - new colour palette. |
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| Creating the lines by negative painting. |
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| Imposing the lines by printing over painting - yellow irises in Waterperry Gardens |
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| Creating the lines by negative painting - irises. I used the negative of the monoprint as the base. |
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| Lots of very quick sketches outside, interpreting views as patterns of lines. |
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| Imposing the lines by mono-printing over painting, based on quick sketch. |
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| Imposing the lines by mono-printing over painting, based on another sketch. |
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| Creating the lines by negative painting, based on blind contour of the wisteria. |
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| Creating the lines by negative painting - a different still life. |
