It does involve some preparatory sketching/painting before the first class, so I thought it was worth posting here.
This project is to
encourage you to gather and formulate research to enable you to further your
artistic practice plus working from memory and observation.
Please make a series
of images i.e. drawings, using charcoal, pencil, oil pastels or coloured pencils
etc of a room in your house or flat i.e. a kitchen or a bedroom which you
occupy at present. I.e. direct observation
The drawing / images
can be of part of the room, i.e. what is near the window, a view out of the
window, what the furniture looks like, i.e.. Details of the bed, chair/ colours
in the room simple annotated drawings and colour swatches.
Digital images can be
used as aide memoires but it would be really useful to draw and make
graphic/painterly images from the chosen subjects to create research material
I suggest no less than 8- 10 of these images please plus digital
The other part oaf the
project is to recall the same kind of imagery from your memory, a room from a previous time in your life. Maybe childhood
or when you were a teenager /student
So these second set of
drawing will be formed from fragments of imagery from memories
remembered from a bedroom or kitchen recalling the atmosphere in the room,
recalling some of the furniture.
I suggest you draw the images from memory
using the same media as the room at in your present living accommodation.
Please try to make about 6-8 0f these
images.
When we are in the studio, please bring these
drawings with you. I would like you to start building these images into a
series of small juxtaposition paintings using various paint handling methods a
specific colour paint palettes. For
example , using opaque/ transparent layering of paint. Also we will be experimenting with different
mediums to use with the oil paint.
Many thanks.
Hilary
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