Today we used only charcoal, no other materials (except a bit of water and candle wax here and there.) The idea was to explore how many different sorts of charcoal marks could be made, including using stencils, scraping and scratching, making charcoal dust with sandpaper and creating 'charcoal drypoint' on scratched paper... Two contrasting approaches to a bamboo subject. First, we were drawing with scissors, cutting freehand shapes of positive, negative and linear shapes relating to the bamboo. Some then added drawn marks with charcoal etc. Secondly, gestural charcoal marks of the same subject.
We started off by looking at how glass really just distorts the background. Then developed this into distortion of text and the fascinating abstract images that can be found by zooming in on small parts. |
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March 2020
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