Portfolio

I decided to create my portfolio in an accordion folded book fashion. I felt as if the individual drawings complemented each other and worked well as being viewed as whole rather than individual pieces.

Picture 14: Filed Trip Drawing

This picture involved time differences and merging different aspects of the building and the surrounding sight into one drawing. I decided to use charcoal and took three different angles. I decided to use the one view looking down over the wood figures, the glass panels in the background, the stairs in the middle ground and the shadows of the wooden ornaments over the stairs.

Picture 13: Field Trip Drawing

This drawing involved water colours . I tried using layers of ink starting from light to eventually going darker to create forms, lightness and darkness.

Picture 12: Field Trip Drawing

I took the angle looking over the wooden ornaments to create this piece. I used charcoal and tried focusing on using lightness, shading and darkness to really discover the different textures and forms of the different materials.

Picture 11: Ink Drawing of Building

The building that was chosen was the Sydney Opera House. Again using lighter layers gradually to darker ones I could create shadows, lightness and forms. This gave the image and building real volume and structure.

Picture 10: Water Colour Plus Another Medium

This is was my favourite exercise. This image involved using water colour and another medium. I decided to use colour oil crayons to really make the subject matter stand out. I enjoyed that the colour added a huge dimension to the artwork. It especially gives the fruit a sweet and colourful appeal making the bowl look almost luminous and fruit like.

Picture 9: Water Colour Movement

Here I created a bold inc container. I tried experimenting with the inc; focusing on how it flows across the page and how i cause use darkness to my advantage.

Picture 8: Fast Ink

I wanted to experiment with lightness and darkness to create a sense of realism. I wanted to show the organic shape and texture of this jug and how different lights can create such volume.

Picture 7: Fast Ink

The main focus was experimenting with colour and darkness. I main aim was to create a really organic and realistic image of a simple object which I feel I was able to do with this pear.

Picture 6: Fast Ink

This drawing was fun as I was able to experiment using water colour in different ways to examine how it flows across the page and what works and what doesn't. I feel as if this picture is quite interesting as it is of simple shapes: blocks, a take away container and a rectangular brush yet portrayed in a different manner allows it to really look much more interesting and appealing.

Picture 5: Fast Ink

This image was of basic blocks. The use of this work was to experiment and discover how water colour is best used and how to experiment with lightens and darkness.

drawing 4

From what I learnt in class I wanted to create a sense of realism and of high detail. Using real darkness and shading I was able to create volume of the vase and the reflection of the smooth table. I tried to emphasise the importance of detail in the petals of the flowers trying to capture all essence of the purity and nature of the subject matter.

Picture 3: Coloured Paper Collage

This collage was to experiment with colour and different materials. The overall goal that I achieved form this image was that not many colours are necessary for an image to work and it allowed me to be more abstract in my thinking.

Drawing 2: Tonal Movement

The purpose of this image was to merge two images into one. What I did was join an image of the room with the far wall on the right with the Windows. The essence that was captured was that it was if one was looking through the windows of one view into the room which was the other aspect.

Communications Arch 1142 Fluid Movement

The aim of this drawing was to draw a subject matter realistically. Than redraw the same image with out looking on the page. Than what we had to do was try and join the two separate images together to create an abstract whole image.