OCA Level 1 – Page 5 – Martin Paints

Assignment 2: Flat Packed Scissors

Posted on 2022-09-252023-10-17

Table of Contents: Back in project 3, the image of my kitchen scissors got stuck in my mind. I very quickly decided that I wanted to work with this composition,…

Project 2.4: Drawing and painting interiors

Posted on 2022-09-252022-10-23

Research 2.4: Dutch realist genre paintings The Arnolfini Portrait is not from the Dutch Realism style, but it is the one that jumps up and slams itself into my mind…

Project 2.3: Colour Relationships

Posted on 2022-09-052022-10-23

Exercise 1: Exploring Contrasts Its interesting how the center colour shifts in apparent value based on the colour around it. Looking at the groupings around Napthol red (image, above), its…

Project 2.2: Still Life

Posted on 2022-08-072022-10-23

Research: Iconographic significance in still life Dutch Still Life had a number of subgenre3 and if I’m correct, the Collier work above is of the type ‘Pronk’ — which is…

Project 2.1: Understanding Colour

Posted on 2022-08-012023-10-12

Table of Contents Research: Chevreul I seem to like to make things hard for myself. For this course I had gone over to Abebooks ( a great online meta-retailer for…

Assignment 1: Octopus Salad

Posted on 2022-07-172022-10-01

I went through a number of stages of ideation with this assignment. My initials plans were all various levels of crazy ambitious, and I walked them back until I finally…

Project 1.3: Coloured Grounds

Posted on 2022-07-022022-09-01

Reading I’m slowly working my way through Ways of Looking1. The author produces write ups for individual art works which is tremendously helpful for me. I don’t really know how…

Project 1.2: Transparent and Opaque

Posted on 2022-06-142022-09-01

Overlaying Washes I left the final stripe monochrome, because I quite liked that gradient and wanted something to compare against for the Opaque mixing. As before, I struggled to get…

Project 1.1: Basic Paint Application

Posted on 2022-06-112022-09-01

I’m slowly in the process of setting up my own site. I’ll migrate there eventually, but will make sure links are left in place to guide the reader (and will…

Introduction

Posted on 2022-06-052023-01-13

This will be my second module with the OCA. I spent the last year working on Drawing 1: Drawing Skills, experimenting across various media, learning about materials, and stepping a…