Traditional Art Work

We worked some colour wheels where we explored primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

Then also some shades of blue and yellow tints and then watercolour complementary colours.

Below is a slide show of watercoloured Mini Cooper cars with different tertiary colours as well as pencil drawings of different cars from different perspectives.

We had a model come in to pose for 10-20m intervals and these are the still life drawings that I did of her:

I attempted to use chalk,charcoal, pencil, gel pen and pastels for a mixed media collection.

This is where I did figure drawings using charcoal pieces and the last pencil drawing is a free figure I did for practice in character design.

Here is a demo of Vincent Van Gough's 'Starry Night' that I did with watercolours.

I experimented with mark making here and different shading techniques like hatching and stippling.

Here I worked on heads and different angles when they turn. There was an attempt made at realism with pencil and drawing wrinkles and body hair.

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Research:

Gesture Drawings (Derek Overfield):

Derek Overfield is a figurative artist, exploring and documenting the expressive power of the human form.

Overfield deals almost exclusively with the human form, and nearly always with the male figure.

He is currently painting with latex or acrylic paint, but also works daily in drawing medium, such as charcoal and chalk pastel. Despite being a painter, much of his favorite art is sculpture.

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Howard Tangye:

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Throughout his teaching career Tangye quietly developed a particularly idiosyncratic art practice.

Tangye is a figurative abstract artist who is best known for his portraits created in a mixture of oils, pastels, water colour, inks and graphite.

His works are characterised by fluid lines that suggest movement and depth of character.

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Mark Rothko:

Mark Rothko sought to make paintings that would bring people to tears. “I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on,” he declared.

Rothko is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, particularly in the realm of abstract expressionism.

He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.

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Ian Cook:

Ian Cook is a contemporary British artist who makes art with radio controlled cars, actual car tyres and toy car wheels. He operates under the corporate name 'PopbangColour'.

To create his unique artworks, Cook spoons acrylic paint and ink onto large 2.5 x 1.5-metre Fabriano Paper and drives the radio-controlled cars over the canvas in short bursts to create the 'brush strokes'