Week 4 Drawing

 

Last week Richard asked us to bring ink, sticks, etc and we explored what ink can do..... On wet, dry and different kinds of paper blowing ink through a straw, drawing with different wooden sticks, blotting ink and other numerous ways of drawing with ink.

 

We then collated all our small samples on to a large sheet of paper

 

 

 

I also made myself a bench hook last week with the intention of starting a linocut.

However, I picked up a virus a couple of weeks ago and have been lacking in energy. The result is a dissatisfaction with what I've achieved and I'm hoping this week will be more productive!

 

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Week 4 Drawing

Last week Richard asked us to bring ink, sticks, etc and we explored what ink can do..... On wet, dry and different kinds of paper blowing ink through a straw, drawing with different wooden sticks, blotting ink and other numerous ways of drawing with ink. 

We then collated all our small samples on to a large sheet of paper

I also made myself a bench hook last week with the intention of starting a linocut.

However, I picked up a virus a couple of weeks ago and have been lacking in energy. The result is a dissatisfaction with what I've achieved and I'm hoping this week will be more productive!

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Drawing group

This weeks exercises were a lot of fun working to some extent quite differently for me ( although I am known for my love of ripping work). Richard gave us 6 small squares of paper and asked us to make 3 quick gestural marks with a large 1inch brush in black ink/ paint - we kept one and put the others in a group pile from which we selected 5 - we then fitted them together ramdomly and glued them down on a sheet of white paper

We were asked to use charcoal to draw the design - I bent the rules by using the window as a light box and tracing the image (using compressed charcoal)

For the next exercise we selected a cardboard shape and made similar gestural marks first in black then white

These were then all piled together in a large sculptural form and we selected a section to draw

Since then I've continued with the exercise and torn the cardboard into smaller sections - there are so many exciting configurations - these are a few

Now to do some drawings!

 

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International Print Exchange

This is the first year I've taken part in this exchange and it has been a very worthwhile and positive experience - last week I received 8 prints from artists across the world - thank you to all the artists who took part and made this happen and particularly to those whose prints I received John Pindar, David Symonds, Barbara Follette Adams, Kelley Folger, Caroline Masterson, Faith Chevannes, Maureen McAdams and Cynthia Lessard

 

 

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Drawing

I haven't been doing enough drawing so I've joined Richard Allman's drawing group - we meet for 2 and a half hours every Thursday. I really look forward to the challenges he gives us - last week we drew the negative spaces in giant flower arrangements (long stems of flowers like agapanthus and verbena) I wish I'd taken some photos of the flowers as the arrangements were thrown together in a rather wonderful wild way! I tore my drawing into 2 separate drawings which worked much better

This afternoon's session was equally challenging and enjoyable - more of that in my next post

 

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