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For our unit, Expressive Drawing, we had to create sketches and final drawings of the human figure, trying to use different media and different techniques through a series of life drawing classes. I found this unit very challenging at first as i struggle very much with traditional drawing, but once i got into it and found how to be more expressive in my mark making i found it very helpful and i started to get a lot of enjoyment out of it. I have always liked to draw very loosely but i found it easier to tighten up my marks as the classes went on. I enjoyed using pastels and monotype the most as i found them almost sculptural in how i could manipulate the curves and shadows of the figure with my fingers. I liked doing speed drawings as they helped me understand proportions more and how to simplify an image but still being able to communicate what i was drawing. I also liked turning them into collages. I found that sometimes stepping away from something and coming back t

I have already written a report on  kathe kollwitz for my printmaking unit, but i wanted to write a little about her for my expressive drawing unit. As i said in my last post she was a German Artists born in 1867 and died in 1945.   Kollowitz did a lot of self portraits.... Self-portrait, 1891 Self-portrait, 1893 Self-Portrait, 1910 Self-Portrait, 1934 I feel many of her portraits are very isolated and i notice a lot of empty space around her, making to seem more alone. The expressions on her face are very serious and i think at times an air of seeming compassionate...I think her work is very honest. Like she observed her world around her the people she saw and she created works true to what she saw without trying to hide anything. Woman with Dead Child , 1903 They feel very emotionally intense and as is said in my last blog they are depicting people in poverty and people who are emotionally devastated. I think this is partly due to her use of

Maggi Hambling is a British contemporary painter and sculptor. I wanted to write about her as her works on paper has been an influence in my expressive drawing unit.  Her work is very loose and free but so detailed. Sebastian in a Hermes scarf, charcoal on paper, 2004 I love this charcoal drawing. I like the lines and the tonal difference, it looks like he is blowing away in the wind. When i draw i guess i see in sections and lines and try to draw them as i see them which can look quite scratchy and messy. What i have been trying to do is let my hand be more loose and more confident in the line it is making. I feel This portrait dose exactly that.  One of my Favorite ways to draw is mono type. I ink up a board and then depending on the type of ink i use either fair liquid or turpentine to rub away the ink creating my images.  I love Hamblings ' Sir Norman Rosenthal, monotype'. It is a lot simpler and i struggled how i translate my hand into t

I started with : caravaggio david with the head of goliath. I went into the studio and mucked around with the actual lighting and the aperture on the camera.  I then got both the models into position  I really struggled with the composition and instructing two people to get into a position and get a good image... it was a challenge. I then did some editing of the images and mucked around a bit with cropping and contrast and saturation.   I then decided, as we were given two weeks to do another one, i looked at Roy Lichtenstein's Crying Girl. I decided this was a good chance to do some body painting, as i would like to experiment more with that in photography and film.  I wanted to keep going with the idea of face painting and photography in the way of a screen print style so i did a bit more.... I liked this project because