SUMMER Term week 9
Date: 18th & 19th June
Tutors: Siân and Rob
Free Painting
what to bring
Bring along your usual painting materials.
NOTE: Reference link to Seurat’s Conte crayon drawings : for your further perusal following last week’s session.
weekly sketching challenge
Put away your pencils this week and get out your watercolours. Sketch! Choose any subject matter that appeals. No need to use more than one colour unless you want to.
TIPS: Remember to use watercolour paper, and start with your favourite brush, or one that you know you can achieve a desired texture with. Do not over complicate, and remember to watch drying times.
Sketch of the Week
PURPOSE: This watercolour sketch was made for fun!
MATERIAL: Watercolour
MARK-MAKING : uses brushes judiciously to imply texture, e.g. in the trees, roof tiles
FOCUS: Observing the shapes of the roofs and the way that the triangular shapes interacted.
Rob
THIS Week:
This is the penultimate class of before we break for the summer. Use these last two sessions to try to complete anything you have been working on this term, and to set yourself up for the summer. We are happy to answer questions and advise on art you have planned over the summer.
Quote of the week
“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
We know that decent photographers plan a photograph, considering focal length, exposure etc., but for most of us this quote holds true.
ArTIST of the week
David Hockney A Yorkshire Sketchbook
A lovely little book full of Hockney’s sketches using watercolour and ink.
A glance through this book is all it takes to understand that these sketches were made for his own use. They are all about the observation. He uses a wide range of brush marks and textural marks, but in a way that implies that his concern was making a note of what he was looking at, rather than trying to attempt a full on painting of subject. The sketchbook is an excellent example of a confidant ‘shorthand’.
A Google search for David Hockneys watercolour sketches found quite a few from this book.
Last updated: 11.12.23
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