Lesson evaluation – drawing our objects

Today we used the objects that we had previously brought in and drew them in different ways buy looking at them at several different angles. Not only did we do this, we also used newspaper, we ripped the newspaper into different shapes and used it as a back ground or to emphasise a specific part of the object we were drawing. As well as newspaper, we used different mediums to add effect and texture, both wet and dry materials were used such as biro pen, emulsion paint and graphite sticks. To add extra tone I smudged the graphite on my paper to create a small shaded look.

As each drawing went on we built up more of each medium and by the final drawing I had used all three on just one study. Here are my 5 drawings below, beginning with just a simple biro drawing on a strip of newspaper.

One artist that I find inspiring on terms of this type of drawing is Carme Magem. I find her work interesting because I love the masses of texture and layers she uses. Her studies usually consist of human faces or parts of the human body and a lot of her work focuses of very famous people like ones from the 1950’s such as Marilyn Monroe. Obviously the biggest and most significant link to the work we did yesterday and this artist work is the use of newspaper which is my favourite part.