Tuesday 14 December 2010
Course work: More work on Stage Three of Project Two, primarily on the “Venus” figurine, working from yesterday’s sketchbook study and from the setup itself.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Cynthia Freeland Art Theory
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001
Pp. 20-39
Time today: 48 minutes
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Monday 13 December 2010
Course work: Additional work on Stage Three of Project Two. Most effort was expended on yet another repainting of drapery folds, but some on further development of objects.
Reading and theoretical studies:
E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
Phaidon Press Limited, Oxford 1978
Pp. 202-228
Sketchbook work: A quick study of the shadow pattern on the Willendorf Venus; this has gotten rather confused in my painting, and I need to revise and simplify it.
Time today: 1 hour 27 minutes
Course work: Additional work on Stage Three of Project Two. Most effort was expended on yet another repainting of drapery folds, but some on further development of objects.
Reading and theoretical studies:
E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
Phaidon Press Limited, Oxford 1978
Pp. 202-228
Sketchbook work: A quick study of the shadow pattern on the Willendorf Venus; this has gotten rather confused in my painting, and I need to revise and simplify it.
Time today: 1 hour 27 minutes
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sunday 12 December 2010
Course work: Ongoing work on Stage Three of Project Two.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Sarah Simblett The Drawing Book
Dorling Kindersley, London, 2004
Pp. 47-87
Sketchbook work: A drapery study in charcoal, ~18 x 26cm; I can do these tolerably well in most media, but doing them in acrylic continues to elude me.
Weekly reflections on learning experience: I am going through one of the periods of frustration that attend the learning of any new skill or technique. The knowledge that I could do better with another medium is disheartening, and even the certainty that persistence will lead to progress is unhelpful. The work I am doing now is not done out of pleasure, but out of self-compulsion. All I can do at present is to struggle along and try to make a different set of mistakes than I made on the preceding day. My reading and sketchbook work are gradually returning to their pre-vacation levels.
Time today: 1 hour 26 minutes
Course work: Ongoing work on Stage Three of Project Two.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Sarah Simblett The Drawing Book
Dorling Kindersley, London, 2004
Pp. 47-87
Sketchbook work: A drapery study in charcoal, ~18 x 26cm; I can do these tolerably well in most media, but doing them in acrylic continues to elude me.
Weekly reflections on learning experience: I am going through one of the periods of frustration that attend the learning of any new skill or technique. The knowledge that I could do better with another medium is disheartening, and even the certainty that persistence will lead to progress is unhelpful. The work I am doing now is not done out of pleasure, but out of self-compulsion. All I can do at present is to struggle along and try to make a different set of mistakes than I made on the preceding day. My reading and sketchbook work are gradually returning to their pre-vacation levels.
Time today: 1 hour 26 minutes
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Saturday 11 December 2010
Course work: Continuing struggle with Stage Three of Project Two.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Victoria Finlay Color
Ballantine Books, New York, 2002
Pp. 339-375
Sketchbook work: A somewhat more developed study based on one of yesterday’s sketches, ~16 x 22 cm.
Time today: 1 hour 38 minutes
Course work: Continuing struggle with Stage Three of Project Two.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Victoria Finlay Color
Ballantine Books, New York, 2002
Pp. 339-375
Sketchbook work: A somewhat more developed study based on one of yesterday’s sketches, ~16 x 22 cm.
Time today: 1 hour 38 minutes
Friday, December 10, 2010
Friday 10 December 2010
Course work: Further work on Stage Three of Project Two. My inability to handle acrylics to my satisfaction continues to frustrate me, and I have had little luck in finding a solution to the problem of producing convincing soft edges.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Sarah Simblett The Drawing Book
Dorling Kindersley, London, 2004
Pp. 7-45
Sketchbook work:
Three small compositional studies using three apples, ~20 x 26cm.
Time today: 1 hour 31 minutes
Course work: Further work on Stage Three of Project Two. My inability to handle acrylics to my satisfaction continues to frustrate me, and I have had little luck in finding a solution to the problem of producing convincing soft edges.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Sarah Simblett The Drawing Book
Dorling Kindersley, London, 2004
Pp. 7-45
Sketchbook work:
Three small compositional studies using three apples, ~20 x 26cm.
Time today: 1 hour 31 minutes
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wednesday 8 December 2010
Course work: Continued work on Stage Three of Project Two. I am trying to work more boldly, but cannot say I am very pleased with what I have done recently.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Victoria Finlay Color
Ballantine Books, New York, 2002
Pp. 307-338
Time today: 1 hour 12 minutes
Course work: Continued work on Stage Three of Project Two. I am trying to work more boldly, but cannot say I am very pleased with what I have done recently.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Victoria Finlay Color
Ballantine Books, New York, 2002
Pp. 307-338
Time today: 1 hour 12 minutes
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