Darren is my tutor for Observational drawing. Today he took me and my classmates out to the lake near our college. We were given the task to observe the lake and draw what we see. Our tools were an A1 paper, a drawing board and charcoal. In front of my was the lake, the walk way around the lake, the wooden pier and loads of trees. We sat there observing the lake and drawing it for hours. After this, we went back to the life room and spoke a bit about Observational drawing. Darren spoke about how he would observe someone and how he places it on paper, he spoke about how his eye level would okay a big part in where he’s place the object on the paper.
In this lesson I created this image above, In really not happy with this piece, I used the charcoal to show shade more then anything, I little bit too much if I’m honest, I got carried away with the shading of the lake and the trees. I should of started at the bottom of the page dark to show contrast and make the image look 3D. If I’d do it again I’ll add more detail to the image and use the charcoal in a more intelligent way .
Our homework is to make three 20×20 images of a small section of the drawing in colour. Also to research these artist: Bonnard, Cezanne, Peter Prendergast, Emrys Williams and John piper
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