Sick Week, A Collab and Inky Stories
Unfortunately, this week began with an end-of-term virus so I couldn’t make it in for Drawing a Head or The National Gallery. Starting on Wednesday which was my core day for The Drawing Year, this week we paired up and collaborated on larger drawings influenced by the references we were introduced to in the morning lecture:
The drawing above is the result of my collaboration with the amazing Chi Park (@chihpark go follow her Instagram) and was an easygoing experience. I think the difficult thing about collaborations is checking your artistic ego all day that keeps emerging trying to control the whole piece. The larger the group, the more difficult it gets to navigate minds that want to pull a piece in different directions - collaboration is about compromising what you want and finding some middle ground with whoever you’re working with. Thankfully for myself and Chi, we’re both pretty chill so apart from the odd paintbrush duels ⚔️ we came out with some great drawings.
Here’s a look at some of my classmate's work (go follow rdsdrawingyear23 for more):
Inky Narratives
For Drawing a Story, I moved away from gouache this week and decided to do some medium-sized ink drawings. Our story this week starred a rather overly-attached husband, and a wife who enjoyed winding him up after a long break overseas. The drawings came out quite tender, but I’m also trying to push using my imagination more in class now so I attempted some alternative perspectives too.
Works in Progress
As the term is slowly coming to an end now, I’m starting to try and get some paintings going and wondering what my next steps are for my personal practice. Recently I’ve been doing some drawings at The Barbican, and this tree painting was inspired by one of the gouache pieces I did on-site.
Oil Painting on Canvas, WIP
And that’s all for this week, do check out Chi’s Instagram and The Drawing Year’s account! If you’re interested in next week’s post do sign up to be notified and with that ..
I’ll see you next week,
Tomas
