Day 10 Fine Art what are you?

Heidi was able to communicate some of the challenges around 'Fine Art' - the concept and parameters of fine art are disputed.

 Like quicksilver Fine Art can be difficult to hold - it's not just Drawing and Painting, typically it tends towards work that is self initiated and is ideas led.

Contrasting with the nature of the more commercial  Visual Communications which is more likely to have  a goal or involve working to a brief. 

 Fine Art can be described as risk taking with the possibility of failure.

Having had a look at the territory we had a go at some Drawing approaches the subject matter of which was Popcorn...  


The Kernel of the exercise - Popcorn

We looked at the popcorn and approached it via different methods and using different media - for me there was a real interest in looking, seeing and scale  - we used techniques that involved looking at the object but not what we were drawing, using our 'other' hand - holding the drawing device in different ways (like a dagger - and in our mouths).

An= interesting point for me was how time was experienced in different ways depending on the approach.





  


After Lunch

once we'd had a break we worked on a large-scale picture that was graphite and charcoal orientated - I chose to crop my image and was aware of the popcorn subject suggesting other things (bodies and eyes for example).

As a group discussing we were aware of a possibility of going beyond success and tried to record the image as it developed...




 
Using a long cane and working around the paper

Smudging and erasing


Adding some further marks

Perhaps where I might have stopped

Orientation changes things 

Hairspray was applied to the drawing and also some 'white' charcoal was used to complete.

Other Drawing Approaches

Artists associated with drawing included Matisse who drew in silhouettes in later life (with help), Tracy Emin, Paula Rego and Louise Bourgeois who would draw when she couldn't sleep.

Looking at cave paintings  from Lascaux there was some thought that these works were surprisingly sophisticated Heidi explained that although the drawings were very old they were not all done at the same time. 

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