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Contextual Studies III Updated

By Heather, on February 16th, 2010%

I finished my painting for Contextual Studies this evening.  I have to say, it turned out a bit differently from what I expected before I started working on it.  You see, I was working in Life Drawing class today, and we were working to music to see how it affects your style. . . . → Read More: Contextual Studies III Updated

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Feeling rather poorly

By Heather, on October 31st, 2009%

I’m seriously under the weather still.  I went to a Halloween party last night.  Bad move.  I was pretty miserable feeling for the whole night.  I shouldn’t have gone, but I missed my friend Anne’s birthday party a few weeks ago because I was ill and I didn’t want to let her and . . . → Read More: Feeling rather poorly

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Working with bitumen

By Heather, on October 29th, 2009%

Quick post tonight. I’m a bit under the weather so painting has been a bit of an effort and college was murder today, but it’s nearly the weekend, so I can have a proper lie down then. I just have to plough on through it. I’m only in for about an hour and a . . . → Read More: Working with bitumen

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Painting To A Theme Progress

By Heather, on October 8th, 2009%

I worked on Painting To A Theme today, and I selected two more possible images for my final pieces, which I am currently working on, so I won’t be able to show them here tonight.  I also carried out another colour study on my version of Toulouse-Lautrec’s Portrait of Helene Vary.  I carried out this colour study because the first image I worked on had a blue figure with a dark background.  As you will know, warm colours stand in the foreground, whilst cool colours recede into the background.  So I thought that I should try inverting the image, bringing the browns into the foreground and pushing the blues into the background.  Personally, I prefer the first image, even if it is “technically incorrect”.

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Hope against hope?

By Heather, on October 3rd, 2009%

I started working on my Coast project today, as I need to have 10 images handed in for next week.  I’ve taken several images from my sketchbook that I need to develop.  Out of those 10 images, I then must carefully choose four of these, and submit them for print.  I must decide which type of print I would like for each image, whether it be monoprint, drypoint, etching, collograph, etc.

I tried working on an image I created right at the start of the project, which didn’t turn out well.  So I thought I’d have another bash at it.  It still hasn’t come out as I would have liked, but the result was at least interesting.

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