Week One drawing Project (Written 26-09-13)

I would just like to quickly observe how art, and specifically drawing, was used this week as  a unifier and a conversation topic… it is of course something we all have in common on our course and I am really enjoying getting to know people through their art, and through talking about their work.

The Drawing Project was really fun because none of us felt too precious about the work we were making and I think this gave us some scope for experimentation and working freely. Indeed, I really enjoyed working in a style so different from what I am used to - painting in bold colours, very stylistically and very quickly - I really would like to do this again because it was fun to do! The brief seemed so loose that we were able to follow lots of different ideas, and ended up with quite a strange, but interesting result.

 

 In re-interpreting Pierro De La Francesca’s ‘Flagellation of Christ’ (1455-1460), we mainly focused on changing the perspective, removing the depth of field and distorting the mathematical ratios and proportions that were so considered in the original.

 

 

I both enjoyed and disliked working in a group. On one hand it was exciting and spontaneous to work with other people’s ideas (that were usually very different to my own)… when we were painting together, we moved around the work so that it was truly a collaboration and areas would be worked and re-worked in different ways. On the other hand, however, I don’t think I would want to work collaboratively in my own practice because I found it hard to put across my ideas, and am not confident in enforcing my own ideas.