Life Drawing, Week Two

Getting to grips with photoshop

 

These are some new images I have been playing about with - just getting to grips with manipulating images in photoshop.

When Emma met Photoshop

I scanned in a few of my drawings and collages and paintings and photos today and had my first ever play on photoshop- excting times ahead I think!

Life Drawing , Week One

Started the life drawing course this week- to kick off we did some consecutive line  charcoal and pencil drawings layering each on top of the next. I then rubbed these drawings out with a paper towel to create a mid-grey ground, which I then drew on top of again using chalk pastel and a variety of drawing techniques including continuous line, left-handed drawing, two handed drawing, and drawing not looking at the paper! I thought the effect created images that were refreshing and full of energy, and  captured the essence of the movement of model.

We then made a series of 10-minute drawings using charcoal and an eraser on a mid tone charcoal ground, bocking in areas of tone to build up an image. It was difficult to resist the urge to use line in the drawings!

Finally we made eight very quick drawings using oil pastel that was then covered in quink ink , causing a resist effect . We then drew again into the ink using bleach. Some of the images were really simple but very effective. Sometimes the highlight effect of the bleach succeeded in implying a full solid human form.

My Drawing with Light

These  are a  few images of the work I made for a project experimenting with drawing with light. I used over-head projecters, photography, slide-making , drawing, textiles and other methods and materials  to produce the images. The work began by collecting fragments from the studio and manipulating and working with the materials to create pictures with light.

Kareem Rizk

Michelle Caplan

Callum Innes

CalIum Inne's 'Exposed Paintings' first captured my attention about 8 years ago whilst completing my degree, and I still now feel a connection to these beautiful paintings. They  are created through a process of layers of paint being first applied, then removed with turpentine , with  traces of colour remaining on the surface. The paintings therefore contain evidence of their own making, embedding them with a sense of their own history. For me the  images evoke landscape and light, horizons and seas and emotions.

Ian Davenport

A little article about a fave painter of mine- Ian Davenport, on how he paints http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/20/guide-to-painting-ian-davenport

Felim Egan

When I was at university my tutor mentioned Felim Egan to me, as he felt the artist's work would resonate with me, and he was so right. I just love Egan's restrained, elegant paintings. Monochromatic expanses of colour are built up slowly with layers of acylic, and a distinct vocabulary of motifs are sparingly placed across the surfaces. Although abstract, his paintings evoke the landscapes of his home, of horizons, sand and sea which the poet Seamus Heaney, has described as “a balance of shifting brilliances”.

Kate Lemay