WEEK 7 : tutor led
22nd & 23rd November
TUTORS: Rob & Siân
TOPIC
This week we will be drawing. We have several exercises planned, aimed at improving your drawing skills, but also at making you consider what is an effective drawing.
what to bring
AN APPLE , or two, or three… or maybe pears. Specifically these, not other fruit.
paper to draw on. Please bring some paper you don’t mind scribbling on, as well as some that you might like to use for a more finished drawing. This can be loose sheets or in a sketch book.
unstretched watercolour paper to use to practise drawing with a brush
pencils - a selection of grades if you have them
pencil sharpener
eraser
just one or two paints - no need to bring all of them
a small selection of brushes
As requested, the photo that we used in class this week.
Have fun!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
what links this…
with this?
( And it is not the colour of the wall! )
Last weekend I visited Tate Britain, a gallery I have not visited for many years. Typically my timing was not good, as Tate Britain is updating its exhibition displays, which meant many of the galleries were empty. It made me smile to walk past vast empty rooms devoid of paintings, but sporting holes were the picture hooks had been - just like my studio! There was also a delicious smell of paint, an appropriate aroma normally missing from galleries.
While I was disappointed that the Hockney I wanted to see was not on display, I was able to spend some time with my favourite Rothko’s, The Seagram Murals. I last saw these in Tate Modern. They have been moved to Tate Britain, as Rothko donated them the Tate with a request that they be displayed in a gallery next to the rooms that house the Turner Bequest.
So, why?
Can you see a link between the two artists?
Need a hint? Visit www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/turner-collection
Further discussion to be had in class!
Siân
Book(S) of the WEEK
Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook
Comments by Henry Moore and Kenneth Clark
Thomas and Hudson
ISBN 0 - 500-28072
David Hockney - A Yorkshire Sketchbook
Royal Academy of the Arts
ISBN 978-1-907533-23-5
TIP
Not all sketches are executed in double quick time. Here Rob has used cross hatching to apply shade and tone, but also as a means of extending the time he took to look the subject. This time spent means more time absorbing the atmosphere, which will in turn affect decisions made for the painting such as colour choices or textural marks.
