Well, uni has finally started and last week was the first full week in uni :)
It all began with a drawing workshop, in which we were given the task to draw the unfamiliar, now this could be taken in its broadest sense and even allowed you to just focus on process and materials opposed to producing representational drawings, which I was pleased about as me and accurate drawing doesnt mix!
At first I didnt know what to draw at all, I usually like to have something in front of me if I am drawing it, so I was a bit stuck for something to do, whilst everyone else seemed to be settling into the work! Lucky me has a studio space next to a window, I looked out and there is a tree just outside my window, so that then became the focus of my work.
Here are a few examples of the work I created...enjoy :)
This first piece is one of my favourites, I had an idea of using post it notes and making them the shape of a tree but it went all wrong and this is what that idea led to...
This piece is simply gentle strokes of red watercolour paint...
This piece I decided to use black marker pen and instead of flowing lines, replaced them with straight lines to see what effect it would have..
On the basis of experimental drawing, I decided to further explore different ways of drawing, for this piece I used soft pastel on black paper, but I closed my eyes whilst drawing, I did this 3 times creating a series of "shut eye" drawings and also experimented with colour...
