PAPER PAPER

The paper collaboration is now finished, with the Issuu book having been published and a small animation made.

MARK MAKING

After looking through Nigel Peake's in the wild I was inspired to look at the quality of my line and the marks I can achieve. I started by looking at pencils and the different texture each one gives. Although this is pretty basic, I'm happy I did this as before now I tended to work purely with H's unless I needed a really dark line in which case I'd go straight for 6B. This has just proven to me how much texture I'm missing out on by not varying my use of pencil.

Next I wanted to see the texture I could creature using single directional line and then how adding subsequent lines changes the appeal.

At the time I was really happy with my decision to create trees in this way 

Evening Doodles

Using the same approach as my patchwork building I created a block of patchwork textures.

NIGEL PEAKE

After the tutorial I went to the library to have a look for books on the artists mentioned. I got out Nigel Peake's In the Wilds and couldn't put it down. It's such a brilliant book, his approach to textures, in both man-made and natural objects. The sheer quantity of marks and line work would make you think his work should look too busy, but his clever colouring means nothing seems too much or out of place. There is also a very playful quality to his lines as it doesn't appear he uses a ruler. It also looks like a lot of his lines are created using a brush.

Images from In the Wilds

Front Cover

TUTORIAL

I had a tutorial with Marcus and Joel and overall the feedback given was good. My drawings were praised especially initial patchwork building image (which had just been a doodle to get my drawing flowing), they particularly liked the quality of the line as here unlike in all the other pieces I hadn't used a ruler. I was given various names to look at such as:

Hundertwasser

Hundertwasser House

Nigel Peake

Making Ends Meet

Thomas Demand

Bathroom

BRUTALIST BUILDINGS

I've spent the last day purely drawing buildings, both interiors and exteriors. Over the few days I noticed that the key to a good composition was exaggerated perspective. I feel my images created in this way are more successful. It gives an angular feel to the pieces which I feel fits in more within the realm of Brutalism.

example of earlier, minimalist landscape

furthering the blocky look of the buildings

example of interior

later work focussing of exaggerated perspective 

BOURNEMOUTH

I used the mask making workshop as a chance to have a wonder round bournemouth town centre and look at the buildings.

MASK MAKING WORKSHOP

On friday and saturday me and 3 others from AUB put on a mask making workshop at the celebrating success awards. The friday night was for 13+ and the saturday afternoon was for 12 and under. Some example of the masks made:

Our set up. A long table at the back of the room.

I really enjoyed this workshop, especially the saturday as a lot more of the younger kids got involved. We never had a free moment! They also allow you to get more involved, asking for help and advice on things. For the older children, for one we had very few wanting to make a mask but they also were more independent not really wanting any help.