I neglected a formal reflection of my part 1 assignment feedback, and will consolidate thinking here.

A few initial notes:

  • Focus is a theme I need to work on, in a few ways:
    • I treat my log as a long journal entry. This does others no favours, as they spend time trying to hone in on the relevant points. Going forward, each post will be more focused — although where there are relevant parallel activities, I’ll provide a hyper link. Looking forward to Assessment, I have begun revising past posts. I have already created a robust tagging hierarchy here, I should actually leverage that.
    • In each exercise I think I’m trying to solve too many problems at once. I’m rushing. I should focus on the main thrust of the exercise as my area of learning. As I gain comfort, slowly add secondary or tertiary, but do not lose sight of the purpose of the exercise.
  • Discomfort
    • I am comfortable with dry media. I know how it works, and don’t stumble through its use. That isn’t the same here, and I should keep that in mind regardless of how simple I find the subject matter when drawing.
    • Through mistakes, learning is found.

Assignment 1

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Assignment 2

  • What does it mean to have a more or less sophisticated approach?
    • In this assignment, I repainted/painted over, and achieved something different than my original. I could see that something had been lost, but I couldn’t tell what. My tutor mentioned the sophistication of the application of colour. I’d removed a hatching-approach that I found distracting, but replaced it with my default of simple/unexciting blending. What would be a way of re-approaching the hatching, and addressing my feeling of distraction with it? What did I find distracting with it?
    • A note to myself to paint a third version.
    • My tutor points out that I should spend some time thinking about how I place colours next to each other, and which colours I chose. I think this goes to the research on Chevreul, and how our brain perceives colour. I notice that Aaron Westerberg doesn’t blend his colours, physically. Even on faces, he is placing small tiles of colour, and slowly working in other tiles of variation.

Action points identified by my tutor

  • Revisit the figure sketch (link) using the ‘pants method’. Significantly “soupy” paint. Am I trying to paint, generally, with paint that is too stiff?
  • Reattempt “Colour Accuracy” exercise but try the opposite. Avoid all local colours (or minimize their presence). In my prior drawing unit I found a fruitful outcome in “repeat, but opposite” exploration so this is quite interesting. (link: Drawing 1 Assignment 4, bottom of post). Attempt to keep my palette to a small handful of mixed colours (and associated variations in tone)

Artists to explore

  • Sam Hodge as for site specific work related to found pigments. Centering the pigment, instead of just using it as part of the palette.