Patrick Caulfield (1936 – 2005), a British painter and printmaker. He was a formally trained artist and also taught at the Chelsea School of Art. He’s often associated with pop art, although he himself did not like the label. He combined reduced line drawings in a single colour with photorealistic elements, for example in After […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Research point: Patrick Caulfield
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Shadows and reflected light and shade
The task was to draw two objects with reflective surfaces with charcoal on a large sheet, including the reflections of shadow and light on the surface, and using putty rubber to work out hightlights. I selected two metal cooking pots for this drawing. I chose large ones, to have more surface on which to observe […]
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Study of light reflected from one object to another
The task was to select two or three objects with a shiny surface, place a light source at one side and then draw the objects with the patterns of shadow and reflected light. Page 1: B/W pencil drawing of two objects It took me quite long to decide on the objects for this drawing. I […]
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Check and log: Tone and form
How difficult did you find it to distinguish between light from the primary source and secondary reflected light I’m not sure whether I have understood what is meant by this and if have seen it at all. Probably I should do some research on this topic, trying to find examples to be sure that I […]
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Drawing skills: Secondary reflected light
When asked in the Check and Log section for Part I, Project 3: Tone and Form, whether I found it difficult to distinguish between light from primary source and secondary reflected light, I realized that I wasn’s sure whether I had understood these concepts. A Google search brought up several sources, of which I have […]
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Research point: Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (1840 – 1916) was a french painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Redon is well known as a symbolist painter, but he also made many naturalist paintings. I do not like the strong mystical, surrealist aspects in many of his works, but I admire his sensitive and colourful paintings, when he chose more realist themes […]
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Tonal studies
After reflection whether to draw some more on exercise 1 or to proceed to exercise 2, I decided for the latter. Although I found my drawings for exercise 1 not really convincing, I thought I had understood what to look out for, and that by varying the type of practice I’d prevent becoming bored. Reminder […]
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Drawing Skills: Hatching
Looking for some additional technical information on hatching as a drawing technique, a Google search directed me to the Wikipedia entry for Hatching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching). To summarize “an artistic technique to create tonal or shading effects by drawing […] closely spaced parallel lines “when lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called […]
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Observing shadow and light formations on a surface
This exercise was to take two simple objects, have them lit from the side and draw them using pencil. Beginning with a quick outline, then adding light and shade, then drawing all gradations of light and shadow that can be seen on the objects. Also including tonal gradations from light reflected from one surface to […]
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