Section 3: LANDSCAPES. Exercise 1: Clouds

This turned out a real challenge.

The weather at this time of year is consistently overcast or raining with flat grey skies. When there was anything that looked like a break I would run outside to study and draw.

I did manage few works and had some fun experimenting with charcoal powder. I pinned up a large paper on the balcony whist the rain had finally ceased and did the clouds with charcoal powder and charcoal.

Two efforts in pencil - rapid sketches as the wind was quite strong.

Two sketches in watercolor at an attempt to capture the colors.

One more done a week later in charcoal.

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Section 3: COMPOSITION. Research Point.

Contemporary Artists working with landscape and a range of viewpoints. Georges Seurat, Landscape with houses. 1881. Conte Crayon Tacita Dean, Fatigues. 2012. Chalk on Blackboard Mark Tansy, Reveler, 2012. Oil on canvas. The subjects of Mark Tansey's work is set in, for the most part, landscapes and he uses and manipulates these to serve the purpose of the allegory that he wishes to convey through the use of images which are paradoxical and at times absurdly but never, randomly placed on the canvas. I love his work and have included it here to compare the three works as they all monochromatic and unusual to their approach in viewpoint. In all three works there is a strong sense of division in the picture plane. The first two the space is divided horizontally and in the last vertically - Tansey's work has a strong sense of symmetry, both vertically and horizontally and this further emphasised by the repetition of this element in the mirror. Tonally the works are also...

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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: Basic Shapes; Exercise 1. Groups of Objects

This exercise made me look at objects in relation to each other as opposed to disjointed and lying next to one another. I used ink on brown paper and that worked beautifully after I had sketched the drawing lightly in pencil. I like the strong expressiveness of the ink lines and the way it ties everything together.

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