Many qualities influence mood in a portrait painting: style, colour/tone, contrast, facial expressions and physical gesture, clothing and location. Picasso In 1901, Pablo Picasso began visiting a women’s prison, Saint-Lazare….
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Research: Self Portraiture
Portrait as… In my quick survey, I noticed a number of themes in self portraits. Themes around the reason to paint, not just the subject matter. I’ve noted them below….
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Project 3.2: Looking at Faces
As before, I have limited access to models in person. There are a number of online life drawing sessions that I’ve signed up for, and can of course use myself…
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Project 3.1: Observing the Human Figure
I’m trying out organizing my posts differently. I’m hoping it aids the reader in finding the most pertinent information. In particular, I intend to front-load any notes regarding my intention,…
Continue readingReflection: Part 2,1 Assignments (todo)
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…
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Assignment 2: Flat Packed Scissors
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,…
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Project 2.4: Drawing and painting interiors
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…
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Project 2.3: Colour Relationships
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…
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Project 2.2: Still Life
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…
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Project 2.1: Understanding Colour
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…
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