Nag Stones & Nancy Holt: white on black

Prompted by a collection of Nag Stones, pebbles with a hole through them, we looked at artwork using holes as an integral part of the work and how viewfinders, in particular the Claude Glass, have been used by artists.

The collected stones were drawn on to black paper using white pens and in some cases, developed further.  The wonderful results follow below.

Well done everyone - some very lovely drawings were made!

Nancy Holt:  Sun Tunnels 1973 - 76 Great Basin Utah

Nancy Holt:  views through a sand dune 1972 

Claude Glass

James Turrell:  Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Dorothy:  a triptych

Will:  putting an object through the hole

Ian

Ian

John

Arthur

Margaret:  These brought Barbara Hepworth to mind.

Barbara Hepworth

Monica

Monica

Christine:  demo page

Nag Stones from South Sea

card design 2: gold leaf & egg tempera

or... how to make a rather large mess in a relatively small space.

Notice there are no images of making egg tempera, my stickiness had peaked by then.  I didn't record some of the work made either - apologies.  However, lots of learning took place! 

Well done everyone! 

[no Art Circle next week - we're back on 28 November]

Margaret

Will

Dorothy

Monica

Christine

card design 1: birds & boats

Developing the image using different approaches and thinking how it might be reproduced for more than one card.

Considering... subject, scale, colour & Christmasifying.

Dorothy

Monica

Will

Christine

gorgeous gourds...

Thank you Mike for remembering when I didn't!

We had a beautiful array of Lytham grown and dried gourds as the centre piece of our work.  The shapes, textures and colours were stunning.  

The beautiful coloured drawings are below.

Very well done everyone...

Mike

Dorothy

Will

Monica

Christine with demo

tonal values & mark making with pencil

A roof lantern light and bright room lights make tonal drawing a challenge but we had a go. 

 

Ideally, chiaroscuro or the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting is best tried in a darkened room with a strong light directed to a part of the subject. (see end of post)  We had bright room lights with daylight from above!

Next time, Plan B as soon as I've thought of it.

Well done everyone - Lovely mark making!

Monica

Derrick

Mike

Derrick

Mike

Monica

Christine:  demo page

Rembrandt:  self portrait 1639