WEEK 1: DRAWING FROM STILL LIFE

So today was my first proper day at the college and I was so nervous and scared, we had like a team brief kind of thing at the start with a presentation about what they expect from us and the equipment we should have and what we were going to be doing for the week ahead. Our task for the week was do 3 A1 sized drawings from the still life in mainly black and white but we could add colour to some of them.

We separated into our subject groups and started to draw from still life around the studio, there was a washing line area with balloons drooping down, an area on top of cabinets with small toys and another area with sign post and some plants. I was dreading this because I haven’t properly drawn in months! Our first task was to draw an object from the still life in 5-10 minutes (I can’t remember exactly) we then had to give our work to the person on the left and then draw an outline from another object, and do different mark making techniques in the item. Our next task was to pick one of the objects from the page and do a repeat pattern with it, I picked to repeat the box like shape from a piece of Lego, which was harder than it looked because I couldn’t get the proportion right, we were then allowed to add colour, shading and add layers to it, and in all honesty, it was the worst piece of work that I had ever done but I could see the potential in it becoming a pattern.

 

My last piece of work that I did this week was from the signpost with plants still life and I chose to do a banana shaped leaf and repeat it over my page. I chose to use only shades of green using different materials as I thought that would look quite cool. The materials I chose to use were pencil, biro, watercolour, acrylic, oil pastels, collage and I did some of the outlines with a thick marker. I like this piece of work because I think it looks really cool and would look effective if I did it in black and white and then had one of the leaves in an accent colour which would make it stand out.