Reflections on Feedback
I feel really encouraged by the feedback for this part, this is giving me more confidence to push my work further, which is exciting. I have learnt so much since starting Drawing 1, from a hesitant start with much tension (which I can see in my work), to feeling that I can push more in my work. I am enjoying drawing much more now than when I started, I am trying to be more relaxed about it, my tutors support has really helped with this. The exercises have allowed me to build my confidence slowly, this too has helped me, allowing me to build up to more difficult exercises.
I want to start looking at how I can semi-abstract what I see so that I can create more of a personal interpretation. This I find difficult as I tend to be very tight and representational in my work, but this would definitely help me to create more expressive work. I will try and push this more to make my work less representational. I also want to extend this with more fluid and looser lines and try to bring this into work using coloured media. I want to take the use of inks and expressive mark making further, I want to see what I can achieve with this media.
With observation as a strength I need to start combining this with expressive mark making. I want to experiment with media and see what I can achieve using different media, and how this can push my work more.
I tend to draw the whole scene, which can be too much, I need to look at the composition and maybe just draw a part of the scene rather than the whole thing. I need to look at the composition and find things in the composition that are interesting and work on just that not the whole thing.
Artist Janette Barnes
Looking at Janette Barnes a contemporary artists who uses monochrome in a very interesting way, showing how much can be conveyed in drawings, even with just using white and black. The fluid movement that she gets into her work is very inspiring. I like her use of the negative space and smudgy black marks almost scratched into the surface. The scene is captured with all the dynamic movement and hustle and bustle of the city.
Alex McFarlane
https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Hole-Face/1305897/6518893/view
https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Hole-Face/1305897/6518893/view (accessed 28th September 2019)
Painting: Marker on Paper.
“I Think This is A Womb”
“First, I accept that I exist. Have you ever been in a space that feels strange?”
“Holes exist in many planes of life. A hole is an anti-space, that can be filled, removed, pierced, prodded, echoed. Holes are universal and transformative; even a human presence can be strange. Caves tell a millennia of physical history, a true hole that can be visited. Some feel as warm and perfect as a womb. Where does the hole end and I begin?”
Looking at this contemporary painters work in conjunction with his words is very interesting and this quote from the above website is very thought provoking something to come back to in the future.
David Hockney (b1937)
I have always had an interest in David Hockney, and in his iPad drawings of trees, he seems to be able to get the essence of a tree into a 2D image. The work is so atmospheric, and the viewer is taken into the depths of the images and feels the chill of the shade cast by the trees. The mark making is also interesting and is something that I could learn from and use in the future.
OCA Drawing 1 