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 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...

Section 3: PERSPECTIVE. Exercise 2

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Section 2: STILL LIFE: Exercise 2: Still life using Tone and Color

I did 2 completed studies for this exercise. The first is in chalk pastels on a dark ground. I thought that the dark ground was useful in contrasting the light areas but that the medium is more difficult to control. I also felt that the composition was successful and I enjoy the contrasting rectangular spaces which off-set the round shapes of the bottles and fruit. The second work was rendered in watercolour pencils and I felt that the medium was far more conducive to accurately capturing the variations in tone and colour. Overall I was more pleased with the first composition as it seemed a bit more interesting and dramatic in a sense.

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