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If you do want to know the basics of colour theory...

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If you do want to know the basics of colour theory...

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Colour (and how much i don't care for colour theory)

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Colour (and how much i don't care for colour theory)

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During the workshop, I went through some Fauvist art pieces. Fauvism is an art movement from the early 1900s emphasising unrealistic and strong colours and painterly qualities.
I want you guys to focus on intuitive colour picking. I found that the most beneficial way for me to understand colour was just to experiment with it. A few tips: if you feel stuck, try using cool tones to represent your shadows and warm tones to represent your lights. I'd recommend wholly avoiding black for shading.
The task: draw something using only colour. I'd recommend traditional mediums such as oil pastels, coloured pencils, or paint. I'd recommend you draw something you're comfortable drawing so you feel you can more easily experiment with colour. The second task, if you're up for it, is to use a different colour palette to the one you're originally working with, draw a similar subject matter, and see how you can change the mood of the piece with just colour.
Personally, I found that experimenting and trying stuff out with random colours was the best way for me to learn how to use colour for myself. Everything comes with practice. Linked below is the presentation with works from Fauvist artists, contemporary artists, and my own journey through experimenting with colour. Enjoy!

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Coloured ink. Persian cat.

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coloured ink. I couldn’t see anything, so I left it and came back to it. It was then I could see a parrot. Very much enjoying this task.

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Ink and paper with a little pastel for colour...

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I did a whole page of ink marks and then thought maybe it would be nice to just let that sit and see what i see and draw over it in pen... i've done a couple other on this page but they are scarily too much about my subconscious thoughts to be able to share haha. Gonna do the whole process again with some better marks now that I've figured out which ones i can more easily see stuff in. Really enjoying this!

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Tried black and plumb ink and a hairdryer... It didn't work.

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I did these at the same time and slightly transferred each onto each other.... It works but I didn't plan on that much ink.... I shall use more water on its own next time.

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A simple way to create a pareidolia image

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Another pareidolia artist...

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Uses pareidolia to produce her
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This weeks workshop is about seeing things/faces in objects/clouds etc...

Task: Use some ink to make a pareidolia image.... see what identifiable images you can create from ink or paint thrown onto paper....

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Gonna start work on collaging him into some kind of background over the weekend...

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Colin Clown. Financial Advisor and Serial Killer

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Colin Clown. Financial Advisor and Serial Killer

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Working on a character for Felix's workshop project. Doing it digitally for ease and because it suits the content but I will be printing it and cutting it out

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So the idea for this workshop is to create 3 small pieces. I want you to think of a character, setting and an interaction for each piece.
Draw each part of the drawing separately, as you can see with my piece I have drawn my rat eating his soap and collages it over the top of the setting (a sewer).
The idea behind collaging it all together is so that you can focus on creating a character with a little story without having to worry about a big drawing.

Dont be too precious with your ideas, you can be as loose and weird as you want, as long as you brin it all together into a little complete picture with some sort of narrative behind it.

I showed the work of Harry Clarke, who puts detailed character on top of flat black backgrounds.
There is a book of edgar Allen Poe's poems with collages illustrations put together by Wilfred batty which might be helpful to look at to get an idea of how you could collage a scene together.
Focus on the drawing of the individual pieces, and have fun with putting it all together.
Alannah mentioned the drawings of rob zombie as inspiration for character design.
Cheers :)

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Wallflower - Ross from Friends Remix by Maribou

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Wallflower - Ross from Friends Remix by Maribou

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Really interesting to have to try and convey audio elements to visual elements. Will have to spend some more time experimenting with this kind of stuff when I can!

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BadBadNotGood “IV”
Well that was quite a cathartic piece.
An experimental album that crosses different genres at times. In places feels like a jam session.

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I actually did this on Monday, but it's taken this long to dry! Drum n Bass and acrylics ...

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I did this one digitally during the song.... Tin

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Left is trumpets by the Waterboys, right is love in mine by big thief
Oil and ink, just kinda loosely scribbling with the rhythm

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Glass Animals “ZABA”
I went a bit illustrative on this one and just ran with an idea. The album is based on a picture book it’s full of ambient layers that take you on a journey through dense vegetation and wildlife.

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Khruangbin “Mordechai”
A melting pot of East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk and psychedelia. A good summer soundtrack.

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When the Going is Smooth and Good - William Onyeabor 

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When the Going is Smooth and Good - William Onyeabor 

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Eyes closed drawing. Switched between two oil pastels and two pencils and made sure I had something in both hands. Went on a 12 minute Afro-psychedelic funk journey this morning. Highly recommend.

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Listened to the album Quebec by Ween - a favourite of mine. Been a little while since I'd drawn so wanted to be playful and loose! Watercolour, pencil and a little biro.

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Listening to new release by instrumentalist Bibio called “sleep on the wing”. Lots of samples of the natural world.

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Bristol based studio. They are well known for creating screen prints for gigs and festivals. Have also dabbled in music videos notably Radiohead.

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Thought I'd do something chilled, then remembered it wasn't as chilled as I thought. I started with no plan, just lots of colours and Craig Armstrong's album As if to nothing.... Tin

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Jake -Andrew Nason x adidas.
Another artist with synaesthesia. This collaboration was inspired by a NERD (Pharrell Williams) track Rockstar.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUYboWbVe0A
Task 1: Listening to Four Tet, "Two Thousand and Seventeen." for this one I closed my eyes and responded to the track, using a single line. Link to music above.

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Live Kinetic painting to "The Sea" (Jura), by M.K. Čiurlionis

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• Pick some music 1 track/album/soundtrack

• You could develop an image that comes to mind when listening

• Or you could create a piece of art that reflects the music you are hearing

• Think colour/lines/shapes/marks

•What inspires you as you are listening?

• You could reflect the rhythm of the music in your work through mark making

• Or respond to the emotional feeling of the music.

• Let the music be a starting point for inspiration.

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• Get yourself set up with sketchbook/something to draw with

• Select your music/ambient sounds

• Press play, close your eyes and respond to the music.

• Alternatively you could try this outside?

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Visual interpretation of Time Bomb by Rancid. A creative duo that are inspired by music in an illustrative way.

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Synchromism
American artist 1890-1973
Interested in art and its relationship to music.  Used colour to express musical qualities.

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Bristol based artist, studied illustration at UWE. Works with local music promoters to create posters for bands. Recently took part in online music festival, live painting musicians as they performed.

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3 musicians.
1921.
Influenced by Italian theatre.

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Hot Still-Scape for Six Colours-7th Avenue Style.  1940.
Incorporates the rhythm of jazz and the heady sensory experience of a modern city. I think you get a sense of that jazz energy.

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Boogie-Woogie. 1943
Completed after moving to New York. an optical vibration, pulsating rhythms much like boogie- woogie music.

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Composition VII.  1913.
Kandinsky wanted to achieve the visual equivalent of a symphony. Inspired by Wagner, Kandinsky used colour and shape to evoke sound.

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Interpretation of Nirvana's Smells like teen spirit.
Jane is based in London and is a synesthete; she sees sound as colours. She listens to classical reworkings of modern day songs to inspire her work.

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The Triumph of music.
1967
Chagall spent a lot of time working with musicians. He designed sets and costumes for ballets and operas in New York and Paris. He was known to love Bach and Mozart but was also influenced by the music of the Jewish community from his Russian homeland. He was interested in the similarities between art and music, repetition, intensity, rhythm.

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Music, Pink and Blue No.2
Early in her career she was interested in the "idea music could be translated into something for the eye". Listened to chamber music a form of classical music.

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Stardust.
Painting of John Coltrane.
Jazz was a big inspiration for Basquiat. He often referenced jazz musicians in his work.

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Biro and coloured pencils.... Enjoyed this one a lot...

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Thought I'd have a go at absent mindedly doodling and see what happens.... Most of this was done holding the biro right at the back and doing the automatic thing....

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Bit late on the upload for the surrealism workshop but this was my automatic drawing that turned into the kind of final piece using fineliner and biro and marker pen.

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The whole piece is inspired by an issue of metal hammer that mastodon did a cover for. I feel I've been a little too ambitious as I don't draw cats usually but Ill keep adding to it and see what happens.

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This is the piece of paper that got me into college that I have scribbled all over. It's a rough sketch using biro with ink and chalk to do the background, one thing I do regret is not letting more of the paper and writing come through.

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ok i know ive posted this 3 times now sorry!! this is as finished as i can get it. I definitely want to try more pen drawings out!

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This was a total bigger to do. I think I started to get the hang of it halfway through by holding the pen almost sideways, but it frayed my patience...

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Drawing in a really old copy of Brighton Rock.
I like drawing in books but sometimes feel conflicted (like I shouldn’t be drawing in old books 😬)

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Miranda suggested I should post my absent minded Zoom scribbles... There is something there I'd like to harness...

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still not done but almost..

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All I have the time for,will get back to it at some point.

This is bloody hard.

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It's really nice to see everyone getting into it some amazing stuff as well. I forgot to put this up the other day but its a list of artists and some videos of their process if your interested.
James Mylne:
Audrey Hepburn Biro Portrait Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQu4a_DZ0E

Mostafa Khodeir:
Statue Biro Study Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1r5pemlm1k

Sarah Muirhead
Abstracted Realistic Portraits
Carine Broncawitz
Blue and red biro work
Daniel Nabuco
Enam Bosokah
Two above are both realistic portraiture artists.

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Drawing on a different type of paper.

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I don't even know how long I spent on this.... probably about 2-3ish hours in total? But yeah holy shit i understand why you said to take breaks... such a slow process!!!  I messed up the face proportions but I'm dealing with it and nobody will know because they don't know the ref pic. :) gonna work on this more tomorrow

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Quick black biro sketch

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Wasn't entirely happy with this one when my blue pen ran out. Then the marker pen ran out and I took it as a sign.... It was good practice though, maybe tomorrow....

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1. Try and produce a realistic drawing with biro using the extremes of tone you can achieve with the material or the marks you can create
Look at some of the ways people have done this through mark making.
You can do anything a portrait, a still life or scenery it’s up to you.

2. Think of something you would usually draw and produce it in biro
If you want to add colour or just aren’t enjoying the full biro experience use other materials with it, pencil can work really well.
If a blank sheet of paper seems ominous try an old envelope or letter, it takes away the anxiety of making mistakes.

If your not a biro person then maybe try a different type of pen instead just give it a go it’s a really useful tool to be able to work with especially for drawing.

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More "Grandly Grimey" work.

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Another James Mylne Piece. This one is from his Grandly Grimey Exhibition which was just a flash flood of colour and collage like composition. You could look at this set of drawings for hours and still not see everything.

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I saw James Mylne on blue peter nearly 8 years ago doing live biro drawing and I've been trying to master biro ever since... I'll get there one day.
Even if your not interested in biro his contemporary portraits are absolutly stunning like the one below done in biro and spray paint.

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Mostafa's hyper realism skills are mad!! Definitely an artist to look at if you want to start doing hyper realism, he has a lot of videos on youtube about his art and I think some tutorials as well.

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For those interested in Biro and Ballpoint art look at Mark Powell's work.

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got to give it a better name than bad back.
I've started on colour pencils now.... I'll never find my identity! Also I don't usually do colour but this has a positive effect.

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I've found that I tend to do these really detailed things when I'm listening to a podcast or audiobook... it feels kinda like when you're on the phone with someone with a pen in hand and start doodling without even thinking

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I wanted to go all out and mix several types of methods such as scale and merging objects. Loved doing this....and I'm pleased with the shapes and textures...

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I’ve really got into this exercise today.

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Bad back.

Inspired by a insta artist I'm fond of, so this isn't all my ideas. Might add some colours with pencil

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mostly automatic... the body appeared there accidentally and decided to follow it :D

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Enjoying this automatic drawing task, it’s very therapeutic.

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just some examples of automatic drawings that arent super detailed or skillful!

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just some examples of automatic drawings that arent super detailed or skillful!

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I'm not sure this is completely automatic, but nothing here is intentional, I just went with the flow. I'll have another go...

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Dislocation, repetition, scale

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Texture, metamorphosis(?)

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Task 1:
Make an automatic drawing, doesn't have to look good, just have fun let your mind wander (google automatic drawing for more examples)

Task 2:
Play with the main ideas from surrealism, which tend to mess with: juxtaposition, metamorphosis, scale, dislocation, texture, deconstruction
If you don't find yourself having any ideas, try looking around your room and picking 2 objects at random and see how you can mess about with the ideas
Any medium you want!

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I started going through old work when I got back and found this biro drawing of slash that I'd started a year ago so I decided to carry on doing portraits around it and am now starting to fill the page... but my hand hurts after all the shading.

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Al pacino, I really enjoyed this and suprised myself as i'm normally completely rubbish at potraits

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I've only done this one of Slash so far, I've really enjoyed this task I haven't done portraits in so long.

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Leonor Fini
Toyen
Giorgio de Chirico
Hans Bellmer (his drawings in particular are very cool)
Dali's drawings are also cool
Max Ernst
M C Escher
André Breton

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Leon the professional.

I'm not feeling this one as much as Tyson, he had such a smooth face for a boxer. I can't seem to get the glasses right.

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Bowie still very much in progress but wanted to get some work uploaded. I want it on record I hate drawing portraits I haven’t done one in over a year. And I truly hate this task. But I want to push myself. Also everyone’s work is looking awesome.

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Is it odd that while drawing Christian Bale's laughing face I smiled all the way through making it, and drawing this made me sad?

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Pencil and paper blender! Oh blender where have you been all my life....?

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I could keep working on this but my brain hurts.. maybe tomorrow

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I used pastels on this one... Not sure about the likeness but happy with the look...

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so I'm really pleased with this drawing, never really thought I could use pencil this way. Thought I'd post before I mess up with adding fine details. I used cotton buds to blend, they worked really well.