Monday Drawing Class 27/2/2012

In the afternoon of yesterday's textile group drawing class, we all worked collaboratively to come up with a mural. We were told to choose 3 colours within our design, and were told to think about scale, painterly lines, block colour areas, changing what medium we were using to draw and rotating imagery like we had done in the morning session. We were able to use acetates of drawings we had done before the class and acetates of what we had been doing in the class on a projector to change the scale of the image for the mural.

This middle section of the mural was painted first. Firstly the 4 horses were drawn with the help of a projector enlarging a students drawing. The horses weren't drawn in full detail as we felt as a group that we should pick the details of the horses we liked the most and draw them in.

Originally we had also painted in two of the images of the umbrella's in the mural, however everything just looked too symmetrical, so we decided to cut out one of the umbrella's and to just leave it as a blank white space. We also figured that we also need more textures and variation in scale as well as some blockier areas to the image. So we ended up adding in really detailed drawing in charcoal pencils of bugs and adding some cirular beads with different textures within the middle of them. As well as these, we added in some block geometric shapes in green and grey, green and grey outlines of geometric shapes and texture using bubble wrap and sponges.

At the end of it all,our tutor asked us to rip and cut the parts of the mural we liked and to stick them together to create a new drawing that was perhaps more refined like we had done to one of our drawings we had done individually earlier in the day. (It just about felt like a stab in the heart after all the time we had spent on it - though we did feel that the end result did look much better.) I think I may rip up my work more often and rework it to see if I can create something more interesting.

(Just thought I would add in this last picture for this post of a close up image of Sophie and John's beautifully drawn bug!)

THIS ARTWORK BELONGS TO EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART STUDENTS - TEXTILE DESIGN 2ND YEAR 2012.