Tuesday 29 October 2013

Still life- acrylic painting

 Still life
Base layers with touches of highlights

The final details added


Friday 25 October 2013

Line Drawing (left & right handed)

Left Handed
Continuous Line
Pencil

Right Hand
Continuous Line
Blue Fine Liner

Left Hand
Continuous Line
Bue Fine Liner

Left Hand
Continuous Line
Blue Fine Liner

Right Hand
Without Looking at Page
Black Biro

Left Hand
Continuous Line
Blue Fine Liner


Stick and Ink life drawing















Thursday 17 October 2013

Paper and Card Heads


                             

                                      

                                 

                                 

                                  

                                 
Applique, dyes, machine stitching and hand embroidery




Tuesday 15 October 2013

Watercolours and Fine liner

Clay Heads

Clay Heads

The topic for my Art Foundation Course has been focused on portraiture and heads. These clay heads were created during one of my 3d classes. The head is yet to be developed, adding more facial features and defining areas.
Working with clay- This is the first time I have properly worked with clay. To begin with the air needed to be knocked out the clay, this would later prevent the clay from cracking or exploding in the kilm. I then created two basic forms, a cylinder to create the neck and an egg shape for the head. I attached these together and then was able to mould, add pieces and cut away from places. I used a member of my class to create my head from. I used basic measuring techniques using the tools I had to hand to get everything in proportion. 
I did not smooth out any areas or define any features in full detail. I used a rough method of adding chunks and cutting away if there was to much weight in places. I used my fingers to attach pieces, adding a rough texture. In my next session i will add more features such as the eyes and define other parts of the face. However I like the rough texture that has been gained and the overall shape of the head is strong and works well.