Course work: Starting the Project One, Stage Three work, I laid the four charcoal drawings out side-by-side, and concluded that the first or the second would make the best negative-space painting, but that the fourth would make the most interesting tonal or full-color painting.
I then made 10 x 15 cm copies on light card and using acrylic paint, painted the fabric black, the background a mid-grey, and the objects white, as an experiment to further assess the shapes as negative shapes. None of the four provides an identifiable shape for all five objects. This little experiment was useful even if my conclusions were unchanged: it led me to wonder if I should rearrange the objects in a more open configuration (the rather tight grouping I have used is dictated by the size of the stand upon which I have placed the objects). I’ll think about this.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Stephanie D’Allesandro and John Elderfield Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2010
Pp. 56-71
Christopher Butler Modernism: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010
Pp. 1-13
(I purchased this book for exactly the opposite reason that I purchased the one above: I want to be sure that I have a reasonable overview of the Modern era, to help me keep my more-detailed reading in perspective.)
Sketchbook work: A pencil sketch of reflections on a metal goblet.
Time today: 1 hour 57 minutes (10h30m)
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