Exercise 1: Drawing fabric using line and tone I approached this with interest as fabric is something that I find challenging to draw. I threw a jacket over the back of a kitchen bar stool, I have also been looking at the bar stool with an eye to drawing it. I liked the combination of … Continue reading Project 1: fabric and form
Project 5 The Moving Figure
Exercise 1- Single Moving Figure Exercise 2- Groups of figures
Project 3 Form
Exercise 1- Basic Shapes I found this a really useful way to approach the figure. These poses are from the OCA website. I used a wide variety of models to explore the figure from photographs to web based life sessions to life drawing classes. Exercise 2- Essential Elements I struggled to capture enough information when … Continue reading Project 3 Form
Finding Drawing
Gradually my explorations began to crystallise into ideas for larger pieces. I have developed one of these ideas for assignment 5. It evolved when various lines of inquiry described in earlier posts came together. Inspired by various artists including the Boyle family world series, Richard Longs walking drawings and Grayson Perry's maps. I wanted to … Continue reading Finding Drawing
Continuing exploration of marks found in road markings
I continued to look at, collect and make drawings based on phenomenon I observed on the road. I was interested in the fact that these images were ubiquitous, that they represented the same thing to everyone, that they were made by someone and that they then developed a unique set of marks- a kind of … Continue reading Continuing exploration of marks found in road markings
A Letter to Georgia Boyle
Dear Georgia, I don't know why I am addressing this letter to you and not to The Boyle Family- singling out one of you flies in the face of what you stand for and what I like about your art. But this letter is an exercise in exploring my relationship to your work, a very … Continue reading A Letter to Georgia Boyle
The Boyle Family
The reason that I noticed the yellow lines in the first place is probably to do with the work of the Boyle Family which I saw while living in London in the eighties. The exhibition I saw was part of the earth series where the family stuck a needle in a map of the earth … Continue reading The Boyle Family
Revisiting assignment 5
My first attempt at assignment 5 was rushed. I picked a subject and pursued it very literally, using the pose and the phrase -my head in my hands- to explore the relationship between thinking and conceptualising and making in drawing. I don't think that I did this particularly well and I don't think that it … Continue reading Revisiting assignment 5
Yellow lines
I have been intrigued for a while by a yellow line painted on the edge of the promenade walk in Galway. It delineates the area where it is safe to walk, it marks the 'edge' of the path. What I like about the line is the way that it has become worn and in places … Continue reading Yellow lines
Project 5: Townscapes
Exercise 1 For this project I decided to focus on the older parts of Galway. It is a coastal city dating back to medieaval times and there are many picturesque places. I found a spot by the old dock and looking over at what is called the long walk, a terrace of buildings that extends … Continue reading Project 5: Townscapes
Project 4: Perspective
Exercise 1: Parallel Perspective I found this exercise very useful and what really surprised me was the difference between my idea of the angles ie what I saw and the blue drawing which I superimposed having determined the vanishing point. I had tried to draw my hall in a previous assignment and had completely misjudged … Continue reading Project 4: Perspective
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