Roll call: City Lit Fine Art Course Year One Final Research Project
Title The Mineral Variations
Site visit Natural History Museum
Thursday Group Sat 28th June 10.00am Cromwell Rd entrance
Should be fairly easy to spot Tony in the queue. For any late comers the first port of call will be coffee in the Blue Zone Cafe, at the left of the central hall and past the Diplodocus skeleton.Bring just pencils and notebook.
Lunch proposal: Morris, Gamble and Poynter Rooms at V&A? :D
Dear all:
Info from Tony regarding next week's drawing as research project.
Hi everyone,
I'll be working with you again next week. The first session will take place in the studio.
The second session we will be drawing on site at the Natural History Museum:
Thursday Group Sat 28thJune/Tuesday Group Tues 1st July 10.00am (Cromwell Rd entrance)
Below is the brief,
looking forward to working with you again
Best
Tony
Full brief as follows:
City Lit Fine Art Course Year One Final Research Project
Title The Mineral Variations
Site visit Natural History Museum
Tuesday Group Tues 1st July 10.00am Cromwell Rd entrance
Thursday Group Sat 28th June 10.00am Cromwell Rd entrance
This project looks at the relationship between research methods and artistic process. In the first session prior to visiting the Natural History Museum we will look at ways to undertake close observational analysis and discuss how these can be modified for on-site work.
There will be a set project offered for those who would like one built around visualisation, i.e. the ability to propose initially through drawing things that don’t exist based on the evidence of things that do. If you have distinct ideas already about the direction you’d like to be moving or a subject you’d like to explore, then you will be invited to discuss this and apply the research methods rehearsed in the first and second sessions to this end.
The quality of your analysis is more likely than any other factor to determine the number of options available to you and the confidence with which you advance your work. So what is required in the first instance are richly informative and above all accurate depictions of form from which later you can extrapolate a number of variations and treatments.
Typically initial drawing research will deliver ‘fragments’ which will then, back in the studio, be extended, building sensitively on the qualities of each prep drawing . Ultimately, through reference to these extended drawings, it should be possible to gradually take a position in relation to the issues that will inform making: weight, scale, orientation (flat/perspective), depth of field (shallow/deep), pattern, repetition, matrix, incision fissure 2D, 3D etc. Processes of working might be cued also by the actual evolution of the initial rock samples: compress, fold, crack, stretch etc. This will give you a keener sense of direction.
Once you have achieved this increasingly we will begin to talk more about visual structure: material, composition, surface quality, visual rhythm, scale etc and the final form your work might take.
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