Charcoal Drawings

For these pieces I worked from my 3D sculpture of a skull and tried to make it seem more life like. I used charcoal to create tone, shading and depth of field within my piece so that the drawing stood up from the paper and really caught the attention of the viewer. I decided to black out the background behind the skull so it also added more depth of field and also brought the piece some character.

Dolphine Holme Residential Trip

Yesterday I came back from a trip with college to Dolphine Holme, which is basically camping in yurts on a farm. I procued quite a lot of observational drawings, these to show a few...

Experimenting with photographs and textures

Experimenting with photographs. I decided to experiment with the texture and colour of photographs by adding paint and scraping it across the piece with a ruler to create an interesting effect. I like the paints I have used in this work as I think the bright juxtaposing colours work well in contrast to the black background and light blurry figures on the photographs. If I was to experiment with photographs again I would like to try adding paint more accurately rather than just scraping paint across the piece to highlight certain point of my photographs and also I would like to add more textures than just paint so that my work would stand out and not look as 2D.

3D Sculpture

Whilst working with 3D sculpture, I decided since my preffered subject to paint/draw was people, that I would make something of a similar intention and see how it turned out. I was really inpressed by the outcome of my piece and I think it worked very well seen as thought I found the medium I was using very difficult to handle. As I find sculpture really inetesting I may experiment with the medium later on in the course to make my Fine Art pieces more interesting rather than just sinmply having 2D pieces.

Photography -Experimenting With Light And Shutter Speed

When working in the studios I decided to experiment with light within photography. These pieces so far I think are my favorite, as I have done photography before and felt at home working in this medium. I like the composition of my photographs and most of all the different effects the light has created. Working with shutter speed is a very impressive, creative way to work and I think I'll be continuing with this medium throughout and later on in the course. 

Fine Art Workshop

Working back into photographs. I decided to experiment with different medias and to edit and work back into photographs. I created a colorful background to work in contrast with the black and white images I have collected. Once i had composed my photographs on the background I decided to cover them in thick layers of acrylic paint simply only leaving the girls face visible to add a sense of mystery. I think this piece works well as the photographs used look very dated and the juxtaposed bright colors and textures used on top of them bring the piece more character.

Analytical Sight Sized Measuring

In our pathways, for Fine Art, we practised analytical sight size measured drawing, trying to copy an outside view from the college window. This is the first time I have used measured scale drawing to create work and must say I was pleasantly surprised. I really appreciate how accurate you can make your drawings seem from this technique and how much more life-like they seem, even though they do lack in detail (which I think for this type of working, is a positive)

Blackburn Art Gallery Visit

On our first week of the course we went to visit Blackburn Museum to see what the art gallery was like there. As I am interested more in paintings/drawings of people, and portraiture is my preferred medium, this 1865 painting by Frederic Leighton firstly caught my eye. I appreciate how life-like the painting has been made through using oil on canvas. As most of the work in Blackburn museum is of a Victorian era I decided it would be interesting to try interpreting this piece by making it more modern, e.g. changing the clothes they are wearing and the surroundings the two girls are in.