Working with the Figure:A Day Spent with Alice
Term 4 we will spend the day with Alice Here is a drawing i did of her in a demonstration for the Howick art group. She has a lovely gentle personality and a body full of character. I have painted a number of models over my time . They are all interesting people. One of […]
work from term 3:
Gaybrielle Omalley:Mangawhai Rose Tomlinson’s copy of Stanley Palmer and then painting of her own of Wanaka Emilia Rubio :Village , Argentina Rowena Poole Gaybrielle Norling Bernadette Tackney Nurit Zubery Margaret Neale’s Silver birch paintings-with Gustav Klimt’s silver birch lower right David Thomson’s cliffs from Awhitu with Edward Hoppers Cliffs on the right
Term 3: continuing to work through the lens of tone
In term 3 we will continue to work through the lens of tone Aerial perspective is the term given to the concept that tones get lighter and colours colder as they recede as in the mountain in the distance will be lighter than tones in the foreground and perhaps bluer in colour to start this […]
work from term 2 : Tone
In Term Two we started off with some tonal sketches in paint from someone elses work. its a great freeing up exercise using paint and one colour and white like this. Learning what the artists chief considerations were , how they used tone in the work. Working gesturally and freely, it does loosen you up Then […]
TERM 2: UNDERSTANDING TONE
Caravagio Ingres Chardin HammershoiJacobDhein Gerda Leennard In Term 2 we will have alook at how others have used tone in their work Tone can be used in many ways To create distance as in Gerdas landscape: Aerial perspective uses tones diminishing as they recede to give an sense of distance and space. To create drama and focus: […]
what we learned from our chosen artist
What we learned from copying another artist. Often people mentioned that they didn’t think it was quite kosher copying someone else’s work…they had shied away from doing it. But you learn heaps of surprising stuff when you do. Like the amount of pattern in a Gauguin, the edgy black outlines of a Beckman, and quite […]
thoughts for term 1:
It might be a stretch to link some tips on budgeting which appeared in the New York Times this week, to our terms topic of copying a work by an artist we enjoy. However, it was their advice to have a mindfulness approach to simply noticing and acknowledging each time one spent money […]
2017 – TERM DATES
Term 1: February 2- March 29 Term 2: May 2 – June 21 Term 3: August 1- September 20 Term 4: October 10 – December 6
2017 term 1: copying an old master and then creating a work of our own “in the style of”
in term 1 we will begin by deconstructing an old master.Seeing how he built the composition, by copying the work. we will then do a work of our own subject matter , working in the style of our chosen artist. Ben Shahn Carl Maughan David Keeling Elmer Bischof as you can see i have […]
2016 term 4 – student work
David Thompson Rowena Poole Virginia Fisher Anita Gate In Term 4 we set about creating compositions from several different photo sources. Creating rhythms and connections between the figures, by cutting and pasting the images so they “talked” to each other . and making depth of field by use of proportion and scale. this is […]