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Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588-1629), A Man Playing a Lute, 1624, Oil on Canvas 

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Dutch painter, influence from Caravaggio (Italian painter).

Popular to be depicted playing an instrument during early 1620s among 'Netherlandish' followers of Caravaggio.

Strong lighting + close up of the subject shows the Italian artists influence on the Dutch painter.

I personally enjoy this composition, there's more weight towards the bottom with only some negative space at the top.

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The first life drawing session of the term. In comparison to the life drawing I did back in A Levels, the session was more relaxed. We got to draw using our own style and materials, although the instructor suggested we draw at a larger scale by using larger sketchpads. However, I would like to do smaller studies so I will stick with A4 for the meantime.

Back in A Level life drawing we worked on easels with A2 paper whilst standing as well. I will try standing next time to see if posture effects my energy levels and quality of drawing...

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Second life drawing session. As you have to claim seats, in the Billiards room, via first come first serve, I was too anxious to claim a good seat that I forgot to stand up and draw...

During this session I focused too much on the structure of the figure, which left me no time to capture the gesture. This resulted in my drawings looking rather rigid and not fluid at all. Next week I will try to loosen up my lines by either using a softer pencil, or by standing up!

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In this session I used a softer charcoal pencil and found my style of drawing to be more relaxed. I also stood up for this session, however I found this to have no effect on my drawing; just that my back was less sore...

The instructor also suggested for me to create rhythm through the lines being drawn. This definitely helped me create continuous movements on the page, rather than stopping to draw multiple angles, and made the figure look less stiff. Next session I will continue this fluid line quality whilst sitting down.

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As these are the early stages of the project, I've collected a range of paintings, drawings and other art pieces which I find visually pleasing. I am most interested in drawing and painting portraits/figures, hence I have created a mood board of my ideal aesthetic by printing images and taping it to my studio space.

To make this a collaborative activity with the rest of Red Group 5, I've suggested to link our mood boards together on the wall to make it visually impactful. Hopefully by next week the wall will look different.

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(Timelapse of the process) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hpZRZ5rz8rUgbQNGxPBkMqpacAIZN1TY/view?usp=drivesdk

The wall is looking more exciting! Sarah, Maisie and I were in the studio before the artist lecture today so we began linking our images together. It was great to find connections between the mood boards, despite each being so distinct.

This overall was a great way to collaborate with them, however it would have been even better if more of our group was here at the same time. I want to try to get more of our group engaged with this, to make the wall look fuller.

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Cornelis van Haarlem (1562-1638), The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist, 1602, Oil on canvas

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Saint John (small figure underneath trees in the centre)

The bright colours and luminance created is something I would like to explore.

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Aurora abducting Cephalus, about 1636-7, Oil on oak

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Oil painting preparatory sketch depicting Aurora goddess of dawn carrying Cephalus the mortal hunter off to heaven in her chariot.

This prep painting is meant to be just a section of a larger work depicting the myth that decorated Torre de la Parada (hunting lodge of Phillip IV of Spain)

The unfinished nature of this allows for the underpainting to show. I love the looseness of the brushstrokes and the smaller 'imperfections'.

Usually when preparatory studies are done there's a more free spirited energy that is created, which ends up getting lost within the final work.

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The studio space is more busy now and more has been added to this collaborative moodboard! Most of the connections between the images are quite random, but it's nice to be able to take inspiration from other people's aesthetic.

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JMW Turner 1775-1851, Petworth: the White Library, looking down the Enfilade from the Alcove, 1827, Water colour, bodycolour and pen and ink on paper

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Despite Turner's dramatic and theatrical oil paintings, I am drawn to his small water colour studies he has worked on.

I enjoy this one in particular as instead of focusing on light, like he usually does, he captures depth through perspective.

The painting is rather small, despite this he can squeeze in a lot of detail using a more clumsy medium (water colour).

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Over the weekend Sarah had added a sculpture to the top of the wall. Today I was painting (bottom right) with my classmate (whose work is on the white pillar to the left of my painting). The space keeps getting busier and busier!

As the term progresses however, I would like to take more of this space back to fill with my projects (paintings and drawing experiments).

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I found it rather difficult to understand/interpret the works of Sarah Lucas... But it was quite impressive to see her exhibition take up such a large space in Tate Britain.

Her work didn't inspire me that much, I found the JMW Turner room to be more facinating. Perhaps I am just too old fashioned.

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Link to timelapse: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lNJgps9080dmWodwpou-ExPZ4wNFp9ad/view?usp=drivesdk

We decided to move the mind map to the centre of the wall for the upcoming open studio this Thursday. This time instead of keeping our images in the same arrangement, we mixed them around with each others to help make the space feel different. We also planned on painting the side walls a different colour to help isolate the mind map more, however we might have to use another medium to cover the walls.

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My group mates had the idea of covering the walls with newspaper to help isolate the mind map we created. I think this worked quite well as it's also highlighted with tape surrounding it. We could have made links to the text on the newspaper too, but we ran out of time and tape...