An Antique Icecream Car and Jazzy Drawing

Sitting alongside the water with my gouache in Serpentine Park, this week I found it really difficult to take a more imaginative path when drawing. Using a combination of passersby to create figures; my first piece rather slow and small:

Gouache on Paper

As I wandered around the park after lunch looking for inspiration, I came across an antique car that had been converted into an ice cream... car I guess. The gouache painting I did next ended up looking like a strange study of an old impressionist work.

Gouache on Paper

For the final hour, our task was to work with the fountains in sight. This time I chose to work in my sketchbook and approached the water in a similar way to my earlier piece.

Gouache in Sketchbook, Study of Fountains

Both imagination and colour were apparently absent today, so I came out of class hoping for more success in World Imagery.

Drawing with Jazz

For World Imagery this week, it was our first class with Deanio X who's lessons are more open to interpretation as they're based around sound. I'll be honest and say that if this was 3 months ago, a class as abstract as this would've driven me mad - but now these classes are perfect opportunities for me to test my imagination.

Thinking from Above, Gouache on Paper

I started the day off playing around with perspective and thinking about alternative framing (partly influenced by all the manga I read). One thing I've been thinking about recently is world-building; which would be a perfect way to create a fantasy world where I can freely combine all the references I'm looking at.

Gouache on Paper

Despite a lot of unfinished work, I came out very energized wanting to go off to the studios to get more work done - and speaking of more work you can follow me on Instagram and also sign up to be notified of next week’s post!

All the best and see you next week,
Tomas