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For this exercise I was asked to build up colours using a hatching technique to create tone. I began by using coloued pencils and drew single pieces of fruit to familiarise my self with the shape and form and practice using colour. I found that my drawings were very pale and didn't have enough energy in them as i would have liked.
I therefore decided to try hatching with pens. I found this added a lot more energy to the picture. I began by making small composition drawings of fruit, using a view finder on occasions. I then chose the composition I liked the best and enlarged it in my sketch book.
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Exercise: Using markers and dip pens
For this exercise I drew three small arrangements of fruit on an A3 sheet of watercolour paper. I then used markers, felt tip pens and ink pens to colour my still life compositions. I really enjoyed these practices and found it exhilarating to go over the colour using a black fine liner to draw random free lines to out line the images. I think this gave the pictures a lot of energy.
I then chose the composition I liked the best and enlarged it in my sketch book. However I found that as the paper was smoother the pens and markers did not work in the same way, and that I preferred the effect on the watercolour paper.
Exercise: Drawing using oil pastel
For this exercise I was asked to choose a selection of fruit and use oil pastel to draw and build up the colours using hatching. I drew my composition on textured brown paper.
I found that the oil pastels were quite bulky to use and that you could not tell properly the image had been built up with hatching colour one on top of the other. However the colours blend very well and the pastels are very soft to use.
Research Point: Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson was born in 1894 and died in 1982, in the south east of England and studied in the Slade School of fine arts. His first works were figurative, but after meeting Mondrian in Paris he became influenced by a movement which wanted to portray the world through abstraction and the use of straight lines and primary colours.
Nicholson moved to Cornwall to escape from the war. The Cornish landscape had a lifelong effect on him. Much of his work are of still life objects in front of a Cornish landscape, sometimes looking through a window. The purpose to his work was to create a connection between his belongings and the landscape around him.
