coloured pencil drawings & a Biro warm-up

Lovely work everyone one - well done! 

Christine

Christine

Debbie

Debbie

Monica

Monica

John

John

watercolours & an incoherent still life to make a narrative

We thought about how our imagination can make stories out of a set of random objects.  Then we looked at some images of paintings and explored the narrative or story in the work and considered composition as a tool for expanding or re-enforcing the story.

The task was to make a watercolour painting using a globe and an Easter Bunny as a starting point.  The room behind the objects could be used or ignored.  Elements from our imagination, colour, objects, setting etc were added to give the work a narrative.  We tested our ideas in sketches first before transferring our selected idea to watercolour paper.  

The lovely, interesting results are below.  Well done everyone!

John

John - preliminary drawing

Christine

Debbie

Debbie, now finished

Monica

Karen

glass in black & white

On a neutral ground and starting with pencil, we drew the main shapes of the subject.

Black and white pens were used to highlight the lightest and darkest areas then pencil was used again to show shadow and the grey areas.

The dandy lion flower and dogwood twig were added to add colour and to rest the eyes from working in monochrome.

The excellent results follow - well done everyone!   

Karen

John

Monica

Debbie

demo page - Christine

 

chiaroscuro, a torch & a jam jar

This was Tricky with a capital "t".

Glass is notoriously difficult to capture and so too are shadows and reflections:  guess who put the three together...

A lot of learning took place this session.

Well done ladies, you rose to the challenge.  

Monica

Debbie

Christine - demo page

 

multiples after Lisa Milroy

aka "playing with Texas Trail Mix to make compositions"...

We each made a still life out of the trail mix and used pencil and/or ink to draw it on card, approx 15 x 15cm.

I think the images tell the story.  The pleasing compositions and lovely mark making are below.  There's also an example of Milroy's work (1988) and a link to her website which is up to date.

Well done everyone!  

Monica

Monica - experimentation using ink

John

Debbie

Christine

Christine

Lisa Milroy Light Bulbs, 1988 
oil on canvas (203 x 259 cm)