Assignment 1: Still Life

Assignment 1: Still Life - Joy

For this assignment I chose objects that bring me joy. They are all objects that have a deep meaning to me as they are for the most part the ones I take with me as I live around the world.
At the back is a frame with a picture of myself and my grown children, in front of it a small porcelain cup which I got here in China and I love to drink tea out of. to the left a small New Testament and a Cross which make up my identity and to the right my small sketchbook that travels with me. The flowers are symbolic for the joy that nature brings me as I seek it out wherever I go. Lastly the small mandarin is a symbol of being nurtured by all these things.

I used a 4B Graphite Pencil, a black Oil Pastel, Black Ink applied with a chopstick and Willow Charcoal to make marks.

I enjoyed the drawing and I hope that the joy that these objects bring me came through. I had to have a few go s at combining the various materials and realised that the ink had to be put down first as it would not stick on the charcoal! I felt that the composition is good and that I manged to capture tone and reflections rather well, also I tried to keep the photo in the frame vague so as to push it slightly more into the background.

For the most part I am pleased with the result except for the cross which I feel I might have placed slightly more to the left.

Comments

Sketchbook

I'm finding the discipline of drawing everyday so beneficial ; I look forward to the time when I can settle down and do it.. And I can see growth. The first one is of my supper and the second a dead bird I found in the woods. #adelefoucheart

Project 2: Exercise 3: Creating Shadows with lines and marks.

Did a lot of practice here before I attempted the exercise. What I learnt here is that implied lines are enough and by not outlining the objects a looser, softer and yet "more real" effect is obtained. This is interesting to me - is it because the brain completes the picture and is therefor more involved in the process and is then more invested in being interested in the painting?! This was 4B pencil. This is some of the practice. Got bored so the bottom 2 ain't great...

Project 1: Research Point: Atmospheric Potential of Tone/Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon is one of my favourite artists. I enjoyed discovering his lithographs and works in charcoal, having only ever seen or known of his later paintings. My research shows that until the middle of the 1890's, Redon devoted himself primarily to his graphic work, engravings and drawings, and notably to the noirs : unusual and precious charcoal drawings, which he exhibited in Paris for the first time at the beginning of the 1880. He explained his discovery of charcoal in a letter published by the magazine L'Art Moderne in June 1894, under the heading "Confidences d'Artiste" (Artist's Secrets). "This everyday substance, which has no beauty of its own, aided my researches into chiaroscuro and the invisible. It is a neglected material, scorned by artists." 1. It is his use of value (or tone) in his noirs that really express the use of atmospheric tone to be studied here. In much of the work a considerable amount of dark tones can be seen ...

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