Main Projects Week 4

Great progress being made with our main projects. Everyone is different and has different goals and interests for each member of the class. Lots to share already and plenty of opportunities over the weeks for everyone to support one another.

Ann - focus on contrast and look at the level of darkness in your source image.

 Brian - be disciplined with the direction and evenness of the lines of colours.

 Brian - add more levels of black into the face to add depth and meaning.

 Faith - draw as many figures as you can using this simple style 

until you find your feet. Look to close-off the shapes using the outer edge "frame".

 Karen - practice different hand movements and 

ways of holding the pastel to leave pure colour on the surface.

 Karen - as above comment. Try your Sennelier oil pastels on top of the Pentel oil pastels.

 Len - make larger scale painting (A3) using the same pens as in this first study.

Linda - continue to look very closely at how Klimt freely combined many elements - 

pattern, gold leaf, colour contrast, symbolism, "montage".

 Margaret - develop all the colours in the shapes so they have equal depth of colour and tone.

Val - be ruthless in your cleanliness of pastel sticks to get the maximum 

range (and subtlety) in the blended greens.

Short drawing stopover

Our short project - drawing. We looked at Giacometti's use of line and observation and tried to get a feel of how he was working.