Friday, 13 October 2017

Drawing Upon Inspiration: One Day Intervention

As part of the drawing upon inspiration project, that was given to us prior this week- we were given another studio day to not only work on this project, but possibly come up with some more, new techniques to collaborate with this project.

We were told that we had to enlarge the small, old fashioned image to an a4 size, and then work from it. When I arrived in class, we were each given an A3 sheet of paper, and told to just start making different patterns, or shapes from our original old fashioned image- this was quite overwhelming for me at the beginning, as I usually take my time to perfect my work however, this exercise allowed us all to think quick, and to just work from our instincts.


I began my composition by firstly drawing a woman onto the page, which I then copied twice more. Following this, I experimented using this gold paper, which you stick onto the page, and then tear off creating this unusual, faint effect. 


I then began to draw in different images into my composition, such as these unusual eyes, which I accentuated using pencil and black pen- to make them stand out slightly more. 


The composition as a whole still looked a bit plain, so I decided to draw in another figure into my drawing, and another face- but I also kept adding some more of this gold paper onto the image. 


Lastly, I used some black chalk to really define the figures at the top of the image; as it looked quite plain before doing so. 

In some ways todays session was very successful, as I experimented with different materials. I also think it was successful as I didn't really take too much of my time caring about making the image perfect, which is something that I always try to do in my work. However, I do think that I could have maybe experimented with collaborating some different materials a little more onto the composition. 


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