Quantifying leaves

Today started out with  bit of colour pallet work. After looking at my leaves I created some browns with various mediums. I think that brush o ink looked the nicest, but my first samples were too red.

I then finished off boxing up some leaves into groups of 5, until the amount of flys jumping out at me stressed me out too much, so I threw them away after boxing a few. I has 735 leaves and I wouldn't have managed to box them all by Christmas anyway.

I them had fun with leafy inks and folding, working onto of my orange neon. I then tried it on silk, which was pretty.

Finally I experimented with chalk and tea drawings of leaves. Thinking about quantifying has got me wondering about obsession. I will get back to you on that.

Leaves

Today I collected 735 leaves. It corresponds with the amount of steps I took between college and the crooked spire. It took a while and when I came back inside my hands hurt like anyone's business. Anyway this waste result.

Whether it was worth it, well,have not a clue. Either way I am now seperating them into groups of 5. To make them seem more manageable. The result of this will be reveled at a later date, or not if it fails miserably, but lets hope otherwise. This may take a little while.

Document

New project in Fine Art 3d. That is DOCUMENT! Today we were sent on a walk to document what we found.

I went on a 7 minute 53 second walk with 735 steps between the college and the crooked spire.

First I took photos of all things red, then all green (just to annoy the colour bLind) then drew a rough map, counted steps, timed myself and picked up all the different types of leaves I could find. This was the result in my sketchbook.

Not too impressed with the map page, a look at the signage is messy. Boats on my walk are nearly illegible even to me, but it was so cold I couldn't hold my crayon, so I have an excuse.

I did some work based on that. This is it.

The leaves are dipped in wax to preserve them. My favorite thing is the wire leaf skeleton, as it looks so sketchy. I am thinking I may look into leaf skeletons more.

This is me, finishing my document on documenting (hehehe)

Team work continued

Today we finished our teamwork thing. Now we had some portraits, we decided to incorporate them. We thought the graphics thing we had going with the hanging infront bit didn't work with the floral, lacy background, so we photocopied the portraits and worked with then in stitch, ink and cutting out to creat the foreground. This is what we made.

I think it worked quietly well considering we had no plan. Then we created our own boards based on th ideas in the collaboration about our own identity.

This was mine. (It had two sides)

I worked with stitch a bit more because I like through results and the repetitiveness of it. I think the faces where I use thread are the best bit of my board. The more delicate lace works well too. I don't like the broad bit of browny pink, as it looks messy and rushed,it also takes away from the lace as through lace runs in it.

I found it really enjoyable, and I can now claim I have seriously studied Rosemarys face.

Portraits of Rosemary

Today we were doing portraits in pencil. The drawings each took about 2 hours. Anyway, this is what I did.

This is the lovely person who it is supposed to be.

I think I over did the forehead, but apart from that they roughly resemble Rosemary, so I am happy. The pictures were better when I am confident with the pencil, rather than going around, measuring until I realise I am not doing anything. It was fun, though my back hurts from sitting still while Rosemary drew me.

Fine Art

We have started our pathways. I have been put in fine art 2d. Good news because it soundsfun, bad news because I am no longer with my new friends.

Anyway we started with a 2d and 3d group mixed project in groups of 4. We are creating something in our teams about identity, incorporating our work on body parts.

This was my groups mind map.

We were a bit confused to start with, and had a false start, but then we saw some lace and thought about how it resembles skin. We also looked at our identity through clothing. We split into two groups. One worked on the lace background, the other on the clothes foreground.

These will hopefully hang together in an Annette Messagere kind of way.
We found it hard, as the project seemed quite aimless at first, but hopefully we will feel more inspired on Friday.

London time

Went to London yesterday to look at galleries. Was quite a fun trip if I do say so,even if I was super sleepy by the end. Fair price. First things first SHINY NEW SKETCHBOOK!!! And I have improved on the cutting out techniques:

Its beautiful. Anyway, started off the day in the national gallery. That was nice. Michael Landy was most definatly a highlight. Everything moved and gave terrifying clanks that made you think they were broken. It was also nice to see their inspiration in other galleries. I took some drawings.

Then I looked at other stuff. I can only say my selection was pretty random because I got totally lost and ended up drawing what was infront of me.(yes there is a rubbing of the floor in there. It was pretty.)

Leaving was hard because I was just starting to get my bearings and enjoy myself. Also Prince Harry was infront of the gallery so I couldn't see my friends through the crowd.

After lunch off to the Hayward Gallery. That was lots of posters about protest, which was interesting. I quite liked the most graphics-y ones.

We then saw a distressing photo exhibition which made me sad so I didn't draw off it. After convincing the others that there was a beach, convincing them onto it and a slip up, we ended up in the Tate modern. I have been there recently, so I wasn't too bothered. Mike Kelly's channel one,channel two and channel three were oddly underwhelming. Saw some pretty sculptures though.

Then Oxford street and home in First Class.Rosin managed to get us in it, her sheer pushyness will take her far in life.

So apart from some revelations about the Stalin's good looks and sandy cuts,it was pretty straightforward from there.

Fantastic trip, nothing beats walking over the millennium bridge singing the Apprentice theme tune.

Bonus picture of sexy Stalin.

Update on head and body parts project

I have been exploring skeletons mainly so far and just decided to show anyone whose interestedsome of the stuff I up to.

Thats some of it. There is more, but it is in the same vein, so I just put that on. As a bonus,have a picture of Erin with my pathetic attempt to paint a skull on her face with watercolour.

Last Life Drawing Lesson!

This was sadly the last life drawing lesson before the review. Needless to say this makes very sad. To round of the last few weeks we did some very fast un-measured drawings.

5 minutes.

10 minutes

I have most definitely improved. Iam much more accurate with proportions and have gotten better at fitting most of a drawing onto a page, if still not perfect. All in all its been good.