Drawing: Using mixed media.

This weeks session was linked to last weeks, in that we were using last weeks drawings to create these ones. I chose a small section of my shoe mountain drawing, and drew it a lot bigger on a piece of black paper. I then used mixed media (wire, paint, charcoal, chalk, masking tape, wood, fine liner, cutting out, string) to pick out details and make it more 3D.

These are some close-ups of the drawing.

I drew with coloured fine liner on the blocks of wood, as a contrast to the very big black and white marks the rest of the drawing is made of.

I enjoyed doing this and experimenting mixing media I haven't used together before, but I did get very messy.

Culture meets Nature: Drawing

To continue on our theme of 'when culture meets nature' we each chose two words out of a hat, one was a natural thing, and one cultural. My two words were 'mountain' and 'shoes'. I started off by doing some observational sketches of shoes, both mine and other peoples.

I then sketched a mountain the best I could from memory (unfortunately I couldn't find a mountain in Wolverhampton) 

I then tried to combine the two, by making a 'mountain of shoes' starting with a pile of shoes, turning into a mountain further up

 Some close-ups of the drawing:

I then tried to combine them in a different way, by making the mountain into a shoe. I did this by putting laces up the side of the mountain, and trying to make it shoe shaped, while keeping the form of the mountain. I then cut away the excess paper to better show the shape.

Group introductory project.

for our introductory project, Applied arts and fine art (the courses are merged in first year) were split into groups and given the theme 'When nature meets culture'. we brainstormed for a while and decided to make a timeline. One side would start with civilisation and buildings, going from skyscrapers, round to more organic structures like cottages. From the other side, we would start with mountains, to mirror the skyscrapers, and have lots of colours and plants, nature untouched by humans. we decided to link the two sides with water, which is important in both nature and culture, so the nature side had a stream, coming down the mountains and round to the middle, where it met a canal, a man made stream, coming from the culture side. I took pictures of the parts to show the many different styles of drawing that our group created.

 we also used some yarn and origami to make it slightly 3D, to add interest to what would have otherwise been quite a flat piece.

 Other groups, though they had the same starting point, had very different final pieces to ours. i found it very interesting to see the different ways it had been interpreted.