The works of Franz Kline are largely produced in house paint with large brushes on canvas. This unusual use of medium has had a clear influence on the finished result of each painting. Considering this I produced copies of two different Franz Kline paintings, each in a different medium for my learning log book. Below…
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Contextual Study Point 3: Franz Kline
Franz Kline is an artist of which I was previously aware but through this research I realise that my previous knowledge had really only scratched the surface. I was aware of the following: Kline painted large, industrial looking paintings worked mostly in black and white lived in New York was an abstract expressionist I had…
Sketchbook Work (Small A5 Sketchbook): Thoughts and Experimentation
I have started a small A5 sketchbook to document my thoughts and experiment with ideas. This sketchbook does not have any particular topic or theme so I am free to work on whatever I am thinking about that day. Below you can see the drawing I have produced on the inside cover and first page….
Exercise 1.2: Using fluid media to add tone
In this exercise we were asked to do two drawings of the same subject. One drawing to be done in fluid media, adding tone and shading first, then draw an observational drawing in dry media over the top. The second was to draw an observational drawing only in dry media. The results are the two…
Contextual Study Point 2: Geraldine Swayne
In our study material we were told to look at Geraldine Swayne’s website in the folder entitled ‘paintings 1’ and that this folder has many works in it that cross the painting – drawing divide. This folder is not there and the artist appears to have rearranged her website. Therefore, I looked around her website…
Sketchbook Work (Small Square Sketchbook): Response to the Pandemic
The Covid 19 pandemic has caused so much disruption to our lives and 2020 has been an undeniably strange year. I have dedicated a sketchbook to reflecting on this subject matter. At the very start of the pandemic I saw, on social media, a meme that demonstrated how the virus spreads and how social distancing…
Further Experimenting with immediacy and fluid line
I was mostly pleased with how my first batch of fluid drawings turned out but I felt that I wanted to experiment with this technique a little more. I wanted to try a runnier mix of paint to see how it changed the process. I also wanted to see how the process was changed by…
Exercise 1.1: Adding dry media to my fluid media drawings
I have chosen to add to most of my fluid media drawings with my ‘counterpoint’ dry media but above are the drawings to which I chose not to add. These drawings were produced just after my morning run through a nature trail and contain many references to the natural world. For the drawing at the…
Exercise 1.1: Experimenting with immediacy and fluid line
For our first exercise we were set the task of experimenting with fluid media during a time when we have ‘mental space to be more reflective’. The task was to make a series of drawings in quick succession using your chosen form of fluid media. The idea being you let your hand respond to your…
Contextual Study Point 1: À L’infini by Louise Bourgeois
The piece of work produced by Louise Bourgeois I have chosen to discuss is a series of 16 etchings called ‘À L’infini’. The etchings, on a background of cream paper, have been added to with pencil and gouache. They depict various images of stringy, worm-like shapes tangled or knotted together. Entangled in these are other…
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