I used acrylic, watercolour and coloured pencils to create this piece of work and I was very pleased with the final result. The hardest bit was trying to give the impression of the rounded part of the shell which I tried to do by using curved lines.
For the architectural part of the unit, I used a bridge near the college, the cinema and a couple of close ups of tower/turret buildings around Galashiels. I find drawing buildings difficult because of the straight lines and getting the perspective right. However, overall I'm pleased with most of the finished results. I particularly enjoyed drawing the bridge and the simple landscape in the background.
We then did about four life drawing sessions each 3 1/2 hours long. This was one of the hardest parts of this unit because we had to get proportion, shapes, shadows etc. right otherwise the model looked disfigured. Needless to say I found this hard and to be honest did not enjoy it at all. However there are one or two results which I am pleased with. Here are a few:
My favourite part of this unit was the still life drawing because we could choose which objects we wanted to draw - I chose shells and some wooden objects we had at home. I particularly liked experimenting with the different media e.g. pencil, pen, ink, coloured pencils, and Inktense pencils. Some people have commented on how effective the shadows are and how realistic the shells look.
Assemblage was another part of this unit and it was interesting learning about artists who use this technique for their work. I looked at the work of Ben Nicholson, Louise Nevelson, Jean Arp, Picasso and Georges Braque.
I tried to incorporate Nevelson's and Arp's use of overlapping items and use of shadows in my work.
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| White Relief Ben Nicholson |
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| Louise Nevelson |
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| Texte hébraïque Jean Arp |
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| Still Life with Chair Caning Picasso |
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| Verre Violon et Papier Musique Georges Braque |
I think my assemblage worked well because the sand I used for the background made it feel like a close up of a small area of a beach. I really like this effect and I think the shells and stick worked well too. I used different sizes and shades of sticks to create the stick in the image - I think it worked well because the shadows made by the small sticks create shadows on the big stick. I also used papier-mâché to make the bigger shell and then painted it using acrylic. I then made the smaller shell by using wire to make a frame and covering it in tissue paper to create the different shades within the yellow and purple. I thought the colours were too bright so I used white tissue paper to make the colours slightly less vivid.
I also did another assemblage in a tray-type frame. This was also fun to do because I used coloured photocopies of my drawings, wire outlines and netting to give the piece an extra beach-y feel. I used sand on the background again because it worked so well on the first one.
The highlights of this unit for me were the assemblages, working with the different objects and materials in particular the wire, papier-mâché and netting. I am looking forward to experimenting further with this technique.
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