I'm sat in a beautiful place to work today - the view is magnificent
we are in a cottage on top of a hill near Newtonmore in the middle of Scotland... there is lots of snow and its quite chilly. The rest of the party are out doing sking, walking and I suspect coffee drinking and I'm happy to stay here enjoying the view getting on with my E learning (aagghh) but it is a good place to be .
Quick overview - continued history…..we started the course with lots of drawing -
choosing to draw objects which were meaningful to ourselves... as I am a
traveller with quite a lot of accumulated junk from across the world I found it
quite easy to select a few bits and pieces which I liked. I like organic
objects most - real things i have picked up along the way, often one off finds,.
Loads of drawings later, 1 minute, 2 minute, blind drawings, continuous line which I love-
etc. – I changed objects regulary for variation, skulls, fossilised wood pepper grinders a very electic mix but fun to draw.
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| sheeps skulls continuous single line with detail |
In the first few weeks we just used black and white. I did drawings using different mediums - pencil, chunky graphite pencils, stick
and ink. mono printing, diffusion dyes, sharpies and other different fine
liners - which is what I always return to. I am inspired by artists like
Hannah Davies, Emily Forgot and other artists I found on Pinterest.
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| fossilised desert rose wood in stick and ink with fineliner detail |
The line drawings got more confident and complex and started to
develop into collage – my great love, layers of texture both
pictorial and abstract. I stuck to neutral
colours and experimented with different kinds of papers and string.
NEXT......onto glorious colour........
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