Section 3: TOWNSCAPES. Exercise 4: Statues

Statues

In the Science City park where I live there are many statues of famous and ancient Chinese and western philosophers, scientists and thinkers.

here are a few:

Thales (although why he's letting it all hang out is somewhat of a mystery) the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.

The photo does not show it but its done on tan Bockingford paper with white, black and brown color pencil.

Zhang Zhong: A Toaist mystic - done in watercolor, which I do enjoy drawing with as I feel you can capture tone and do less lines.

Sun Smiao - The king of Chinese medicine. He was able to read the pulse with a string and lived during the Tang Dynasty.

Xu Xiake was a chinese Traveller and Geographer who lived during the Ming Dynasty. The name Xiake was an alternate sobriquet given to him by his friend and it means "one who is in the sunset clouds". I did two of him as I particularly loved the very rough way he is sculpted and I felt that in this one I captured that texture well. It is done with a gel pen.

The second one is done with color pencils on Tan Bockingford paper.

Sketchbook work:

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Section 2: DETAILED OBSERVATIONS OF NATURAL OBJECTS: Exercise 1: DETAIL AND TONE

Fallen Leaves Study. For this the subject is 3 dried leaves which I found during my walk, all three in varying stages of decay. I used colored pencils and oil pastels. I left the majority of the page white as I wished to capture the intense light and the lovely colorful shadows that the leaves cast on the crisp white paper that they were perched on. I enjoyed the success that I achieved with the papery delicate feel of the leaves and it was only till I had layered the oil pastel on top that the drawing "popped". What i learnt here was not to be "precious" with your work. Detail 1. Detail 2. And then I cropped it. I think that the composition is better here. There is less negative space and the longer format works better with the length of the leaves and the horizontal lines that they present. Some practice - Lemons in conte crayon

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...

Section 3: COMPOSITION. Exercise 1.

Composite drawing from sketches and photographs. This exercise excited me as I looked at the elements that interested me in the landscape around me and drew from previous work. I realised that a work didn't need to be constructed from only the visual information in front of me but could be drawn from elements in previous sketches and pieced together. I looked through the work I had done: Sketchbook for Exercise 1. and did some sketches: And decided to put together 2 works... the park sketch in charcoal that I did on the Sketchbook Walk exercise: And a 360 sketch of the view over a small stadium and the eastern part of the city. so as to combine the feeling of the concrete jungle and to reflect more fully the sanity of the park spaces in this mega city. This then the final work: I used a number of techniques and materials: Dipping pen with ink and wash, powder charcoal and green Japanese brush pen. On reflection I am pleased with this

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