In the first weeks of the course, I was still unsure what to include in the blog and what would be relevant for assessment. I tried to get an idea right from the start by asking some more questions. Patricia: Friday, January 20, 2012 Hello Diana, […] – Are you interested in seeing work […]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Tutor correspondence: What to include for assignment submissions
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Research point: Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh, The Flower Garden (1888) I chose this drawing as an example because I liked the garden topic and admired the variety of textures for the plants that van Gogh had created. Remarkably, the walls of the house are the lightest area of the drawing, without any marks. Every other space on the […]
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Doodling
This exercise was about trying out different media, inventing new marks and becoming involved with what I was doing. Page 1: Doodling with a HB pencil Initially I made neatly separated areas with different mark-making patterns, searching for continuous variation. An important change occured when I began to dissolve the boundaries of a pattern consisting […]
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More artists: Cy Twombly
I later showed the mark-making sketches to a friend who is a painter, and when he saw the drawings for Holding pens and pencils he told me that my experiments reminded him of the works by Cy Twombly. I learned that Twombly (1928-2011) had been a leading figure in abstract expressionism, well known for his […]
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Holding pens and pencils
This exercise was about trying out different ways to hold pen and pencil and how this affects the marks that are made. It was also about making different types of movements, varying drawing pressure and exploring a variety of different drawing tools. I filled seven sketchbook pages for this exercise, because there was so much […]
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Tutor correspondence: How to do the learning log
Initially I was very unsure how to do the learning log. I considered several options, and liked the idea of an electronic document, rather than a blog. I asked my tutor Diana whether this would be acceptable. I was also quite unsure what to include in the learning log. Patricia: Wednesday, 4 January 2012 […] […]
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