powdery pastel perspectives...

Continuing from the last session, we used templates and masking to make images with powdered, soft pastel.

Once the pieces were started, they were worked into creating layers which gave aerial perspective; a foreground, middle ground & background.

Some very interesting & beautiful results.  Well done everyone...  

Angie

Dorothy

Elizabeth Anne

Monica 1

Monica 2

Art Circle finishes now for the summer.  I've had a lovely time this year:  thank you for all your contributions, laughter & friendship.

We return to St Annes Library, 11 - 12.30 Thursday, 8 September

I will however be guiding the lovely people of Art Circle around counterpart: Lytham Interventions 2016.  It promises to be great fun with tea at Wetherpoons too!  Can't wait!

work in progress...

To be continued next week - the last art circle until September.

practising people... perfect

We used "8 heads to a body" to begin to understand figure drawing using, How to Draw the Human Figure, Jose M. Parramon - a book I've had for 20 years.  

The drawings of the manikin where made first then we broke down the structure of the figure using this mathematical approach.

7.5 heads - an ordinary figure

8    heads - an ideal figure

8.5 heads - an heroic figure

To make a super hero, the head needs to be smaller.

Everyone improved - most excellent!

Dorothy

Dorothy

David

David

Betty

Betty

Elizabeth Anne

Elizabeth Anne

Angie

Angie

van Gogh, mark making and white & black

White on Black using the mark making of Vincent van Gogh as a starting point then moving into drawing with both hands at once...

If you haven't tried this, have a go.

The excellent results follow.

  

pebbly pastel perspectives

We used large lengths of brown paper, approx 6 ft and used soft pastel to explore two aspects of aerial perspective.  

Aerial perspective 

• objects of a similar size appear smaller as they recede or move away from the viewer
• colours appear to fade as they recede from the viewer
• over much larger distances, the colours change to blues

Well done Monica & Elizabeth Anne.  Sometimes a small group brings about BIG things!

Monica & Elizabeth Anne (approx 72 x 16 inches)

Christine (approx 28 x 15 inches)

internet image