Pen and Ink Drawing. People Watching.

Pen and Ink Drawing. (A3 size)People Watching.

An exercise we had for people watching was to look at the way that clothes sit on the body. We dressed up mannequins and used pen and ink to draw it. I focused on the way the clothes were to big, so it created shade on the body. I used a fine liner to draw the figure and then used the ink to do the shading. I had to do layers of ink to make it darker in places. This drawing came out very well I think I used the ink in an effective way and portrayed the way the top was to big on the mannequin.

Ceramic, Semi Porcelain Tinky Winky

 Semi Porcelain Tinky Winky. (not fired) Museum of Colour.

I made this model from semi porcelain clay for my colour museum project. I chose to do Tinky Winky because it was a challenge with the curves and definition. Semi porcelain dries quite quickly so I had to be gentle when it came to carving and shaping the piece. I had to spray the clay lightly with a water bottle to keep it hydrated and prevent cracks appearing.
            Firstly I worked out the proportions to ensure that the head, body and feet were the correct size. I then moved on to adding more clay to where I had placed the arms so that they would come out from the body, as they should. I added the ears and antennae separately at the end and made sure everything was in line before I smoothed the item over with a soft brush in water.
            This was my fist semi porcelain model, I think it came out well because there were no cracks and I had the proportions correct.  It has a good resemblance to the Tinky Winky object I had based it on.

Porcelain Wall Sculpture by Dale Zheutlin

Porcelain Wall Sculpture by Dale Zheutlin.

Measuring 420cm x 420cm (14’ x 14’).

19993.

This wonderful piece by Dale Zheutlin caught my eye because of the crisp lines and well thought out decoration. I chose this piece because it ties in with our museum of colour project. The artist has worked with many different colours and worked with the ones complement each other.

            The layers of stains and glazes are overlapping with different thickness'; this gives the elusion of looking at a window when the sun is hitting the glass. In this piece there is a mixture of block colour and line, the block colour has been used to break up the area of lines. Tone is also shown in this piece in the way that the artist has used a mixture of dark and lighter colours, there is a translucent white layer over the colours to brighten them and move your eye away from the stronger areas on the piece.