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Final exercise: gut instinct had me reaching for an XL chunk of black charcoal for dynamic mark making. Talked myself out of it, made conscious decision to go the opposite route away from last week’s boldness and charcoal-heavy effort to this, using only the long edge of a whole stick of willow charcoal. Whilst there were some pleasing moments making marks, overall it felt laboured, forced, constrained and ‘What shall I do to make it different from last time purposefully?’ Enjoyed it less as it carried on. It feels unbalanced, half-hearted and aimless despite the will to engage.
An interesting summation given that the subject is glorious, the desire to create and develop, strong but this isn’t wasted perhaps it’s part of the process along the way. Don’t expect things to go according to plan every time and see less satisfactory conclusions as part of the tuning in.
Charcoal on A1 paper

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Negative space again. More satisfying than the repeat exercises in ink and final one this time round. Finding this exercise valuable in developing a way of looking/ interpreting.
Stuck to the time limits from lesson.
Charcoal on A3 paper

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Was definitely thinking about this far too much and overworked some lines. Wanted a brush, should have tried that - next time.
Winsor & Newton peat brown ink on A3 paper

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Enjoyed doing this; a finer, fuzzier subject than this exercise first time round.
4B pencil on A3 paper

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Plants and Line  - week 2 creative drawing class second attempt

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Plants and Line  - week 2 creative drawing class second attempt

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Repeat of exercises from week 2 with different subject - bit of miscanthus sinesis.

Generally summed up as worth doing although results feel less free and instinctive in response, maybe because I was thinking about it rather than doing. In lessons there’s no mulling it over in advance simply getting on with it. Anyhow, it’s been of interest how gut instinct was to go looser but a conscious decision was made to decisively work differently to the class time particularly in final exercise. Results feel lacklustre, forced, constrained. Not sure what to make of that.

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Final exercise: Develop A Drawing.
For this last exercise, chose to focus on the linear and the sinuous lines of Spathiphyllum plant.  Messed with scale and  spacing in subject turning slender plant stems, pulling out the sweep of arching leaves, adding light and dark areas of negative space into an altered reimagining of plant as a copse.

Smudging, rubbing back, lifting out areas with eraser, drawing over, varying pressure, making marks at different paces but generally trying to work more dynamically, expressively and away from previous drawings made prior to any form of tuition. Going with the flow, thought and process development unleashed by joining a class.
Charcoal on A1 paper. 15/20 minutes.

Goal - Further development:
Plan to repeat some of the exercises so far, and to come, in colour - monochrome initially as well as several colours in the same drawing. First step is to repeat in charcoal alone, then ink alone, soft pastel alone, at some stage exploring combining several of the previously listed materials in one drawing.

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Exercise 4: negative space. Found closing one eye to isolate areas whilst drawing happened automatically.
Charcoal on A3 paper

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Exercise 3: Ink….makes you think; admittedly, found it made me think less but simply DO. Not sure if that’s following on from the more meditative style of exercise 2 or because my mind is process-led rather than a production sort.
First use of ink as a medium. Very different! Marks made have their own plan, the medium and tool didn’t travel much distance before needing fresh application. Liberating approach. Curious to work in ink, try it with different tools as well as various brush sizes and in different concentrations.
Timed exercise. 5 minutes.
Winsor & Newton peat brown ink, piece of roughly whittled dowel on A3 paper

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Exercise 2: took opportunity to choose different plant and explore techniques without added difficulty.
Spathiphyllum.
Having looked at work by Ellsworth Kelly - to focus on subject shape, lines, negative spaces. Focus on contour with most time spent looking at subject not paper.
Work more meditatively without correcting misplaced lines. A record of attention. Hand following eye.
Time limit exercise, can’t remember how long.
4B pencil on A3 paper

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Exercise 1: Completely misunderstood and repeated method from last week unaware that I could look at the paper too and not just the object.
Awful. Initially disappointed although in hindsight can see some of the marks made were suggestive of the botanical line.  Never a wasted lesson.
Plan to redo each stage of exercise with different botanical specimen.
4B pencil on A3 paper

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Exhibit A: oxalis houseplant.
Turned out to be a ludicrous choice for the lesson as it made a challenge and learning experience harder than was helpful.

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Final exercise: in the allotted time using marks inspired by the day’s work, draw freely on A3 paper. After time’s up tear paper into 16 even pieces then reassemble in different order. Charcoal.

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Exercise 5: in the allotted time looking at object and paper, expressing lighter/ darker areas of object, differing textures, free movement over paper. Charcoal.

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Exercise 4: in the allotted time, looking at object and paper, continuous contact. 4B pencil and charcoal held together.

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Exercise 3: haptic drawing. Charcoal.

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Exercise 2: Kim giving word prompts, make marks in response. Charcoal.

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Mark making: first exercise. Continuous line, looking at object in one hand, turn away from paper, draw the shape you see. Pencil. 

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Creative Drawing Course with Kim Plowright Nov/ Dec 2022

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Creative Drawing Course with Kim Plowright Nov/ Dec 2022

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Chosen object. Shape, texture, to fit comfortably in one hand.

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Hostas. Friend’s favourite plants.
Pen, watercolour, gouache on paper.
Summer 2021.

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Covert gift-making: photo via email to be allow 60th birthday present to be made.

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To be continued.

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Adding watercolour.

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In progress. Cat in flowerbed. Sketch, fineliner.

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In progress. Rough sketch, pen, watercolour first washes.

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Fineliner drawing of shared nachos 16 days before brain injury in January 2019. Drawn from iCloud photo in May 2021 when brain injury rehab ended.
Pen on smooth heavyweight paper.

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Hmm. Pleased with the colour and texture of trunk, few areas of sky but otherwise didn’t find this enjoyable. Certainly was a challenge though and a learning experience.

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Bit lost at this stage in the exercise, couldn’t see where to correct the boringness of it but that was the point of the challenge.

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Online watercolour challenge 2021: provided with photo of solitary foreground tree towards left of space and not much else to distract you.
Limited colour choice allowed - ultramarine, cerulean, a yellow (whatever you have) and burnt sienna.
Try to: mix and use assorted greens; create texture in bark; remember shadow; create some variation in sky.

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Online art challenge 2021: photo of packhorse bridge, Yorkshire. Draw, add colour, interpret by removing branch areas to clear your take on the image.

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End. Right hand side gone awry, overworked. Disappointing.

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Next step - add watercolour.

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Online drawing challenge 2021 photo: Cretan doorway.

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Fisherman’s Cottage, Cornwall.

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Online art challenge in lockdown. Pick up a pen. Draw this.

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Misunderstanding completely; more than one egg required. Anyone can draw - allegedly.

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Owlet.