We worked from high contrast self portrait photos, but upside down so that the features weren't obvious - drawing what we could see rather than what we knew (for example, most had only one eye visible!)
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence - Henri Matisse |
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As a variation from last week with features, this time we were ignoring the identifiable features and just looking at patches of tone. We worked from high contrast self portrait photos, but upside down so that the features weren't obvious - drawing what we could see rather than what we knew (for example, most had only one eye visible!) click a thumbnail to enlarge... We looked at Cubist portraits. Individual features were drawn separately, from different angles, on different coloured paper and in various media, and then collaged together in a fragmentary way. Drawings were then made from the collages. Click on the thumbnails to see the whole drawings... We looked at Mondrian's deliberate progression from landscapes and trees, through various processes of distillation to his late black grids with primary coloured rectangles. Everyone then chose one of two complicated collections of objects, first trying to suggest the complexity of the whole and then moving on through simplifications to very simple monochrome collages. Click a thumbnail to see the whole drawing... The idea here was to look at very different vegetables - their sculptural form, structure and texture - and draw them several times larger than life. They then seem to take on a different identity, sometimes with surreal undertones, sometimes appearing like foliage or having abstract qualities that we want to develop.
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