A catch up!
March 8, 2010Well it’s been a while since my last post. Its been a hectic few weeks, doing work and then WIP presentations and Amsterdam so a little catch up is in order!. The Martyn Blundell workshops were quite interesting and it was fun to get back to drawing again as I have negelcted just sitting down and drawing for a long time.
The first week we were doing short life drawing sketches on the theme of the beach, and he encouraged us to just use single line drawings to draw the model. I have always found this a little tough as I tend to draw quite sketchily.
I was experimenting with pen and charcoal, and when I did do the line drawings, they started to look like John Lennon! I stick to the fact that I was out of practice!
The second week we were encouraged to draw from memory. And the main topic was how you left your room that morning. Unfortuantely mine was a mess, and I’ll admit the dimesnions are a little off but I ran out of time when I was adding in the detail.
The third session was the most exciting for me. I had forgotten to take a supermarket product with me, so Martyn gave me some cling film. I spent some time toying with how I would include this in the drawing, so started off by giving the model a peg leg…my obsession with pirates and peg legs seems to be showing through in some of these mini projects! I then thought about utilising the actual clingfilm somehow, so I pulled some off and drew directly onto it. I quite liked the idea of experimenting woth different materials as its something that I used to do a fair bit of in my college days. I have always been interested in colour and texture within a piece of work.
After doing that I strated drawing with the cling film, just using pritstick to keep it in place. I enjoyed moulding the shape, and the final image turned out quite abstract. I then photocopied this several times using different contrasts to make it darker and lighter. I then ‘drew’ with the clingfilm again on top of the photocopy and then put it through the machine again. I did this 3 times so I ended up with 3 layers all concentrating using black and white as the main source or colour. I was impressed with what kind of work you can produce just using simple materials, and some that are unorthodox and it would be nice to be able to incorporate some unusual techniques into my project if I can.
