ART, Everything you don't have to do.
Started back at my art class this week, going to be looking at sophisticated primitives, the work of David Jones and others, not sure where this is going to take us as a warm up we were all given the same starting point to develop a picture, it will be interesting to see everyone’s efforts.
Also started a life drawing class a new tutor and location from last year, the first class was very good already lots of advice and encouragement.
Another first for me as my Art class goes outdoors for the summer. I spent a pleasant few hours sat in front of an old door enjoying the open air and messing with water colours, inspired I have been painting at home in the garden trying some different approaches to get a feel for what works for me, I enjoyed painting wet in wet but ended up with a bit of a muddy mess. I just need to learn from those disasters.
This week I have been messing with charcoal and water colour, sketching out another slightly surreal illustration for my strawberry tale, I think this is a little closer to the darker feeling of Jeremy Hush paintings and my starting inspiration.
Back with Alice and her art class, always challenging us to do new stuff .
We are looking at stories art and illustrations this term started with a fancy letter and thinking about using words in our art.
Our art-class tutor is always throwing in different ideas this week we worked with Autumn leaves and wax crayons, not really considered using wax crayons but they are great repelling water colour paint and adding a wonderful; texture to your painting.
Looking forward to this weeks leaves home work.
 
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This weeks art class we looked at blue and white china, the Willow pattern and the work of Grayson Perry. we started just painting from the Willow pattern with the aim to develop a twist on the theme, I don’t think my head was in the right place for this and It didn’t really go anywhere, later I worked on a few ideas and considered making a twist on the Japanese wave.
I put it all down and started to look a bit deeper at Grayson Perry s work, I liked his twist on blue and white using yellow and I liked how he uses text in his work, so one thing followed another and I made a portrait of him.
This week we looked at body adornments and jewellery, working from the art work of artist Azza al qubaisi .
I started with a piece of jewellery and ended up with a piece of baroque design not sure its a finished piece, but it was fun and interesting to do.
I learnt something too if you are using water colours and charcoal don’t use any fixative until you have finished.
   
Good to be back at art-class this terms class is about adornments and we have started with Angie Lewin as inspiration for natures adornment.a few ideas l have been working on.
Ever since I started this painting lark, I have been looking for sites on the internet that give good advice, I have found many sites but Will Kemp art school is just brilliant great writing humour and so much info you cannot fail getting started on the right foot.
So if like me you are just starting out get over to Will Kemp Art school
A big thanks to Will for providing this resource.
This week at art-class we have been working on our Brian Cook type pictures l have been simplifying the lines in my image to give a feeling of flow to the landscape. Late in the day I decided on white lines between the elements in the picture, I started by using masking fluid the lines were not very clean, perhaps my inability to paint with it,but I did find a little water helped. ended up using white gouache got some nice lines with my rigger brush.
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