Salvador Dali and Christ of St John of the Cross

By Heather, on June 9th, 2010%

I feel like I’ve hardly been here in the past month or so.  Inspiration has been thin on the ground, and I’ve been very busy.  I’m not long back from visiting home.  It was wonderful.  I really didn’t want to come back, and it just made me dreadfully homesick while I was . . . → Read More: Salvador Dali and Christ of St John of the Cross

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Contextual Studies: Part IV

By Heather, on March 9th, 2010%

Yesterday was a bit of a disaster for me in life drawing class.  I was almost in tears with sheer frustration at how appallingly bad my painting was.  I kept going, and I have to say I got practically nowhere.  Today, it was back to the drawing board, and I wondered if . . . → Read More: Contextual Studies: Part IV

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Contextual Studies Part II

By Heather, on January 10th, 2010%

Here are a few images I created for Contextual Studies.  This piece is a recreation of Picasso’s ‘Woman in an Armchair’ and Dali’s ‘Masochistic Instrument’.  This is very different in style for me but I really like how it turned out. I painted the background with various streaks of paint then laid . . . → Read More: Contextual Studies Part II

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Further Contextual Studies

By Heather, on December 7th, 2009%

I managed to edit and upload some paintings from my phone to the computer at college.  The editing is not the best, as I still have no perspective crop available – I need Photoshop for that – but it’s the best I could do for the moment.  Anyway, I managed to fill in . . . → Read More: Further Contextual Studies

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Contextual Studies

By Heather, on December 6th, 2009%

I mentioned that I have been studying Contextual Studies on one of my courses.  Basically, this means that I am studying the work of famous artists and drawing comparisons and also contrasting them with each other.  The artists I chose were Dali and Picasso.  At the moment though, I am taking their paintings . . . → Read More: Contextual Studies

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