Life Drawing

Today I began to draw full body life drawing and at first found it difficult. I felt that it was hard to decide where to start without any guidence,however once I started I was able to understand how proportions of the body should be drawn and to keep looking at the model so that I did not draw the body from memory. For the first two drawings I used newsprint, for the third I used brown paper and for the fourth I used cartridge paper. For the last two images I drew three body shapes on bht pieces of paper which ended up over lapping. In the end this looked diliberate which made it look particularly good. I used charcoal to draw each of my images and found this easier as I could make thicker and thinner strokes where I wanted to and go over parts which I didn't like.

Jenny Saville recreation image

Today we produced an image in Jenny Saville's style of art by chosing one of her own works and copying the colours and style. I used an image which involved warm colours and overall I think my piece is well done. I also edited some lines and features with charcoal. We used life drawing skills to produced this and this time focused on John's head shape.

Life Drawing - Hands

 These were the drawings I did of hands when looking at life drawing. I drew each of them with a graphite stick and found them much more difficult than drawing feet. I found the shape of the fingers particularly hard to get right. However I found certain angles interesting to draw and it helped to develop my skills.

Life Drawing - Feet

These are the drawings of feet I did when looking at life drawing. They were each done in charcoal apart from the bottom picture which was done with a graphite stick. I found them quite difficult when drawing the feet at certain angles, especially from the front, but overall i found them to be easier than drawing hands as there were less small shapes involved. I also tried to add slight detail and shadow to my images.  

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville, born in 1970, is a contemporary British painter. She is known for her large-scale paintings of naked women. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England. By 1994, many people were familiar with Jenny Saville's massive paintings. She has recently broken into the contemporary art world with the help of gallery owner and art collector Charles Saatchi. I think her work is an interesting way of looking at the human body, i.e how she sometimes paints the skin right up against a flat surface to give it effect. I think this is quite unique and makes her work recognisable to her. It shows she is not afraid to try new things and experiment with her work and also the colours involved. She often uses various skin tones but also adds blues and reds to make them more interesting and original.

Counterfeiting in Fashion

Imitation and counterfeiting have always been issues to discuss about in the fashion industry. Chanel thought of imitation as a consistent measurement method of a brand’s success, saying that the more you were imitated, the more you succeeded in fashion.

Cyril Edward

Cyril Edward
Cyril Edward Power was born in Chelsea on 17 December 1872.
During the early 1920s, he was producing watercolour landscapes and townscape.
In 1930 Power was elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists and established a studio with Andrews in Hammersmith close to the River Thames, a location which inspired many prints by both artists. During the last year of his life Power completed some eighty-nine oil paintings, a format he had grown increasingly fond of in the preceding years. These were mainly landscapes of the surrounding areas, often Helford River and the Falmouth area of Cornwall as well as some floral studies. He died in London in May 1951, aged seventy-eight. His work consists of curved lines which are well created in his lino printing. His work is often colourful and interesting to the viewer. I think his work inspires me because of the various colours he uses on his lino printing which is something I would like to try and become better at doing.