New Term, New Studio
Fired up for a new term, the next 10 weeks will now consist of Gardens and Greenhouses (yes, again haha), the Wednesday Core Day, World Imagery and a lot more studio time to get the ball rolling with my personal practice.
My first day back was Gardens and Greenhouses, and this week we were in Peckham Rye Park starting off with Kathryn Maple guiding us through thumbnail sketches. To start off the first "drawing" of my new term, I of course pulled out my gouache paints and got started on a series of tiny paintings.
It's interesting to compare my thumbnails from my very first term and now; despite still being quite careful, the gouache is slightly looser and I'm more confident jumping straight into colour (I rarely start with pencil now, not sure if that's a good thing or not).
Term 1 Thumbnail Sketches
For the afternoon I spent time in a more enclosed garden space and ended up doing (unfortunately) a rather boring oil pastel piece.
Oil Pastel on Paper
The composition for this piece just ended up being too symmetrical, but I do think certain aspects were successful like the lower third of the image and generally speaking the colour sat quite well on top of my primed paper.
Evolving Visual Language
For our first class of World Imagery, we were looking at the ASAFO flags with Richard Ikhide. We looked at how the visual language of the flags evolved over time due to colonial influence and then how things changed through the regaining of independence. As our focus was very much a visual one, we looked at how to organise space within a flag format and thought about designing our own motifs.
Morning Exercise, Ink on Paper
The motifs we were looking at throughout the morning combined with the presence of a model in the afternoon helped me pull together a couple of interesting sketchbook pages too:
Gouache in Sketchbook
Next week I'll be showing some drawings from Serpentine Gardens, and taking a very imaginative approach in World Imagery. If you're interested, don't forget to sign up to be notified ~
And with that, all the best and I'll see you next week!
Tomas
