Use geometric shapes outside the figure. Even in the warm up
exercises think about body position in relation to each other. Create a story
in the picture. Loosen up! Use similar colour palette.
Like anything else, the more you do life studies the better you get
at it.
It doesn’t get any less stressful though, It’s not every where that you
can get a model to pose for you naked for an entire day so to honour their
effort I felt I had to get as much of ‘them’ down on paper as I could (the warm
ups start with 30 second poses and slowly go to 20 minutes before morning tea,
after which half hour and 2 hour poses are the norm). However I learnt from one
of the most talented figure drawers in our class, Doug, to focus on small
sections on the body and really get some detail down.
A Labourer works with his
hands, A Craftsman works with his hands and head, An Artist works with his
hands, head and heart.
In today’s permissive society what is unconventional? Some artists
use shock tactics to provoke a response or create a feeling, normally
negative, calling it progress. Pushing
the boundaries, art can make political statements, religious statements,
discriminatory statements and environmental, but really, you only have to push your own boundaries for
it to be unconventional.
Morning – exploring the art world both past and present. For example
we watched u-tube clips of Arthur Boyd, Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Berthe Morisot,
John Ruskin.
Looking at arrangement on
the canvas, storytelling of the components within a canvas,(is something about
to happen or just happened?) sub texting – decoding art of what’s not said within
the painting, know where your light source is coming from, and keep it constant.
Marc is very knowledgeable in art history and paint techniques, he
knows everything about paint and it’s properties , he is a very encouraging
tutor who seems to know what you can do to improve your work, but he does like
you to come up with the solutions
yourself, so not a quick fix
then.
After a number of warm up exercises we were asked to complete a personality
profile questionnaire to find out if we were left brained or right brained.
Of the 22 people present 1 was dominant in the As, 2 dominant in Bs
and the rest in Cs and Ds. Where was I? Predominantly A ‘s and B’s?! Was I
supposed to be artistic or what, according to the profile I was logical, rational,
analytical, factual orderly, consistent, stable, organised, practical, firm,
meticulous and keeping to the rules---very left brained. The right brained –
big picture synthesis, intuition, problem solving, pattern seeing, empathy,
enthusiasm, anticipates feelings, conciliate.
We were assured that with practice we could be ‘Whole brained’.
Hopefully this school would help me there?
This term the message was to go and see ‘good’ art at Te Papa,( Te
Papa had The Master’s exhibit on!) in books and at galleries, copy and learn
how the artist did it. This will train the eye to appreciate and identify good
art, of course this process is an on-going one, never finished.
I decided to have a look at philosophy (in the hope it would help my
whole brainess) on u-tube BBC
productions of the life of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St Thomas Aquinas,
Bourdlair, Zolar and Voltaire!
Heavy going!
‘Nothing
can harm a good man except injustice’ ‘No real harm can come to you, lose all
your money, be stricken with disease etc except when you lose your virtue’ ‘No
one does wrong willingly’ ’ God is
something you can’t conceive anything greater than’, ‘Wisest is she who knows she does not know’.
Probably easier to look at the life of the great artists really, now
that was interesting and easier to
understand.
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