Immediate reflections on Formative feedback – Assignment 1

Overall comments…

Really glad my tutor found the images to be a coherent whole
I can see what my tutor means by saying I could have pushed aspects like tools, gestures and grounds further – I did get a bit buried in working in the original artists’ styles and lost sight a bit of the main focus of my learning – although I think I did learn a lot from trying all those styles (just possibly not what I was supposed to be learning!)

Feedback on assignment….

Demonstration of technical and visual skills

Quality of outcome

Demonstration of creativity

NEXT ASSIGNMENT: note to self – make own work, not derived from other artists – use what I learn from them to create something completely my own

Sketchbooks….

Demonstration of technical and visual skills

Demonstration of creativity

I need to get some tone into my continuous line drawings, which are MUCH better when I keep them loose and flowing and don’t fall into my fussier default of broken scribbly lines
In other words, have confidence in my observation – look carefully, make bold clear lines – decisiveand economic are the watchwords
Think tone! – clear and unfussy

Research….

Context, reflective thinking, critical thinking, analysis

Interesting that tutor recommends “research into painters’ drawings” (my italics) – I have so far in Drawing 1 done drawings as ends in themselves and not really thought in terms of drawing for painting
I will practise drawing, adding tone, and lifting out with a rubber so that I can see how to be decisive and economic with my brushstrokes
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Learning log…..

Context, reflective thinking, critical thinking, analysis

Need as a bit of a priority to look at colour mixing – will follow up guidance given. My experience thus far, prior to Part 1, was with watercolour, and a lot of mixing on the paper by dropping colours in – I do need a system to help me be more organised using a palette.
Tutor makes the point that I am not consistent in looking back to my learning points and using them….I was aware of this as a problem in Drawing 1 where I would hop from thing to thing; have tried to get better and follow things through, but obviously haven’t achieved this sufficiently.

SO, IMMEDIATE ACTIONS:

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