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WEEK 8 with tutor Sophie Jarzyna | TEXTURE
DM via Facebook or email Sophie for 1:2:1 feedback: sophie.jarzyna@gmail.com
Introduction to Week 8 with tutor Sophie Jarzyna
Week 8 - Investigating Texture
Week 8 - Experimental Mark-Making
Week 8 - Textural Surface

Week 8 - Reviewing Experiments

WEEKLY CHALLENGE!!
Identify and observe a dozen (or half a dozen) different textures either from within your home or while out on a nature walk.  How would you describe each texture? How does it make you feel?  Aim to replicate or reproduce each texture in your own way by considering your choice of materials and mark-making tools or techniques.

LINKS/RESOURCES:

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-resource/exam-help/texture
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-resource/exam-help/mark-making
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/i/impasto
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/joan-eardley-sense-place
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Describing-Texture-400-words-to-describe-texture 
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-resource/exam-help/texture
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-resource/exam-help/mark-making
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/i/impasto
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/joan-eardley-sense-place


WEEK 7 with tutor Sophie Jarzyna | SURFACE PATTERN
DM via Facebook or email Sophie for 1:2:1 feedback: sophie.jarzyna@gmail.com
Introduction to Week 7 - tutor Sophie Jarzyna
 Week 7 - Inspiration: Sophie Jarzyna sketchbook tour
Exercise 1 - Mark-making
Exercise 2 - Pattern library development
Week 7 - Inspiration for pattern
Week 7 - Inspiration: Yayoi Kusama
WEEKLY CHALLENGE!! Take a walk outside and actively look for patterns or potential ‘motifs’ in the environment that inspire you- use this as a basis to decorate a page or two of your sketchbook (all the way to the edges) with a repeat surface pattern.

LINKS/RESOURCES:
V&A Collection pattern source books

Patternity book
The Sketchbook Project
Pattern Observer
Pattern Observer Activity


WEEK 6 with tutor Lucy MacLeod | DRAWING OTHERS
DM via Facebook or email Lucy for 1:2:1 feedback: hello@outpostarts.co.uk
Exercise 1 - Drawing the hand
Exercise 2 - Watch & Draw (West Side Story)
Exercise 3 - Study of a Pose
Week 6 - Inspiration: Charcoal figure tutorial
Week 6 - Inspiration: Improving line quality and rhythm using 'force' method
WEEKLY CHALLENGE!! Create a drawing (or drawings) using vintage photography as your source. Consider all aspects of the pose eg clothing, background, narrative, experimenting with materials.

LINKS:

Harvard Library Archive
The National Archives - Image Library


WEEK 5 with tutor Lucy MacLeod | PORTRAITURE
DM via Facebook or email Lucy for 1:2:1 feedback: hello@outpostarts.co.uk
Introduction to Week 5 - tutor Lucy MacLeod
Week 5 - Inspiration: Lucy MacLeod sketchbook tour
Exercise 1: Drawing the Eye
Exercise 3: Self-Reflection Portrait
Exercise 2: Drawing the Nose & Mouth
Exercise 4: Mixed Media Portrait
WEEKLY CHALLENGE!! Take a virtual tour around this year's BP Portrait Exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery, then select your favourite piece of work. Ask yourself WHY you're drawn to it and how you can infuse this inspiration into your own art journal.

Link: BP PORTRAIT EXHIBITION 2020 - Virtual Tour

LIST OF ARTISTS & PORTRAITS

WEEK 4 with tutor Frank Hayes | COMPOSED LIFE
DM via Facebook or email Frank for 1:2:1 feedback: forenjoyment970@gmail.com
Reference images for week 4 exercises are downloadable HERE
Week 4 - Inspiration: A tour of Frank's 'Inktober' art journal
Exercise 1: Drawing Bookshelves
Exercise 2: Momentos Composition
Exercise 3: Drawing Museum Displays
Reference images :
Natural History Museum Collections
Exercise 4 & Weekly Challenge: Objects Misplaced
WEEKLY CHALLENGE! After watching Exercise 4, find some interesting objects and place them out of context, in an unexpected environment. Create a composition using any medium.

WEEK 3 with tutor Frank Hayes |  DOMESTIC LIFE
Email Frank daytime Friday 10/07 for 1:2:1 feedback via: forenjoyment970@gmail.com
Week 3 - Introduction & Advice
Link to 'The Secret of Drawing' documentary: CLICK HERE

Exercise 1: Still Life Using Shapes
Exercise 2: Still Life - Negative Space
Exercise 3: Walking the Line
Exercise 4: Quick Sketching
Exercise 5 & Weekly Challenge: One Point Perspective
WEEKLY CHALLENGE! After watching 'One Point Perspective' tutorial, google 'perspective drawings' then sketch/thumbnail and work up a drawing of a view (either indoor or outdoor scene)

WEEK 2 with tutor Liz McQueen | LANDSCAPE DRAWING & PAINTING
For 1-2-1 feedback, email Liz via: mcqueene@hotmail.co.uk
Week 1 - Introduction & Weekly Challenge: Create lots of landscape thumbnails, trying different views/compositions then work your favourites up into larger sketches, experimenting with placement of key areas of interest. When you have something you're happy with, add colour with watercolour and/or acrylic paint. Have fun!
Exercise 1: Landscape Composition
Exercise 2: Watercolour Landscape
Exercise 3: Acrylic Palette
 Exercise 4: Expressive Acrylic Painting
Exercise 5: Mixed Media Landscape
Sketchbook tour for inspiration / reference

WEEK 1 with tutor Frank Hayes |  FLORA & FAUNA 

Email Frank daytime Friday/Sunday for feedback via: forenjoyment970@gmail.com
Exercise 1: Continuous line
Exercise 2: Sketching Fauna
Exercise 3: Macro Drawing Fauna
Exercise 4: Landscape Fauna
Exercise 5 & Weekly Challenge - download reference images for workshops HERE
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