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Learning Log for OCA Drawing 1
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WELCOME
COURSEWORK
Part 1 – Feeling, memory and imagionation
Expressive lines and marks
Groups of objects
Observing shadow using blocks of tone
Creating shadow using lines and marks
Shadows and reflected light
Part 2 – Your own environment
Project 1 – Composition
Compositional sketches of man made objects
Compositional studies of natural objects
Reflecton
Project 2 – Physical and visual texture
Experimenting
Project 3 – Detailed observation of natural objects
Using markers and dip pens
Detail and simple line
Detail and tone
Reflection
Project 4 – Still life
Still life using line
Still life using colour
Reflection
Experimenting with mixed media
Monochrome
Project 5 – Pets and animals
Animal line study
Tonal study of bones
Live animals using line and tone
Using source material
Project 6 – At home
Quick sketches around the house
Composition – an interior
Tonal study
Line and wash
Mixed media
Part 3 – Outdoors
Project 1 – Trees
Sketching individual trees
Larger observational study of individual tree
Study of several trees
Reflection
Project 2 – Landscape
Cloud formations and tone
Sketchbook walk
360 degree studies
Project 3 – Composition
Developing your studies
Foreground, middle ground, background
Reflection
Project 4 – Perspective
Parallel perspective – an interior view
Angular perspective
Aerial or atmospheric perspective
Project 5 – Townscapes
Sketchbook of townscape drawings
Study of townscape using line
A limited palette study
Statues
Part 4 – The figure and the face
Project 1 – Fabric and form
Drawing fabric using line and tone
Emphasising form with cloth
Project 2 – Proportion
Quick studies
A longer study
Project 3 – Form
Basic shapes
Essential elements
Stance
Energy
Project 4 – Structure
Structure of the human body
Three figure drawings
Project 5 – The moving figure
Single moving figure
Groups of figures
Project 6 – The face
Facial features
Your own face
Portrait from memory or the imagination
ASSIGNMENTS
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 5
Studies and artwork
Reflection of assignments 1 – 4
Written assessment
RESEARCH
IS ART REALLY CAPABLE OF EXPRESSING EMOTIONS?
Odilon Redon
Still Life
Positive and Negative Space
Pets and other animals
Domestic Interiors
Landscapes
Natural elements
Landscapes 2
Compositional techniques
Contemporary Artist’s who work with landscapes
Research influences (Assignment 3)
The changing depiction of the nude
Foreshortening
The underlying structure
Historic and contemporary artists who work on the face in different ways
Artists’ self-portraits
Galleries and Exhibitions
BP Portrait Awards 2015
RA Summer Exhibition 2015
Antony Gormley – Another Place
An Imagined Museum
Salts Mill – Hockney
Pre-Raphaelites exhibition
Laing Art Gallery
The Garman Ryan Collection
BP Portrait Award 2016
Invisible Rooms
Yves klein
Life drawing groups
Project 5 – Townscapes
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