David Fewell
Posted: 15/01/14 04:15 |
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Here is assessor and tutor Jim Unsworth talking in his own inimitable style about what he appreciates in David Fewell’s ‘Fish on a Plate’ drawings.
For those of you unfamiliar with ‘Fish on a Plate’ it is the second assignment (Observation in Nature) in the Drawing Skills course. I will be posting a compilation slideshow showing the the wide variety of approaches taken to this exercise in the next week.
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Nice work. I like the second one in particular. What stands out for me is the large area to the top right that’s left blank/ It balances the busy-ness of the rest of the composition. It’s also good to see a genuine piece of mixed-media work. Too often I see drawings where different elements are made of different media (blurry charcoal or pastel for large areas of tone with detailed areas in pen, for example), resulting in a strange collage like effect. It can work, but not often.
It’s good to see students ‘running with the ball’.
I was interested in the different approaches that students were taking to this and made this short video http://vimeo.com/41190836
Jim
Brilliant Jim. Drawing a fish is different…
This is worth a post in its own right
Jim L, good to see some of my students work in your video. here are just a few thoughts on this project: the subject is both fish and plate so maybe think more deeply about the ‘plate’ part of the title and how you might interpret the word and the thing more interestingly (as the other Jim says, it is not just a circle) also ‘fish’ is not necessarily single – or dead (think about animated and inanimate beings, bones, metallic textures, swirling bodies and so on) and let’s see how else this theme might be explored. As Jim U says, go beyond whatever is written in the course book and look for opportunities to be creative. Looking forward to more experimental work for this project …
Thanks for posting this. It is good to have examples of specific exercises to direct students to. I agree with Brian about how mixed media for the sake of it doesn’t always work. I think it does here (referring to second one) because the different marks and materials aren’t confined to named areas, but spill over across boundaries. It also highlights the use of humour, which is often overlooked by students who think seriousness of approach equals seriousness of intent.