ART JOURNAL WORKSHOPS

WEEK 8 with tutor Sophie Jarzyna | TEXTURE

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!