Please find below / attached various images of completed personal work taken place over summer in the recent months, for and alongside the Art & Design (Foundation Year fo Specialist Degrees) 2020 Summer Project based upon rediscovery and adapting to the ‘New Normal’ etc.
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Alternative Means of Drawing (Mark Making Tools / Patterns)
Claire Smyth AAD009 Drawing in Practice: Alt. Means – Handmade Mark Making Tools and Collated Patterns
Various creative and crafty aspects where in fact required for the appropriate completion of this particular alternative means task / workshop, due to being assigned to create, design and make 12 handmade mark making tools / instruments out of various random natural and manmade items, objects and materials. As a result, throughout my 12 handmade mark making tools, I was able to include materials such as the likes of: sticks, string, leaves, flowers, toothbrush, nails / screws, stationary, bottle caps, cardboard, sponges, wire, bamboo, clips, plastics and cotton buds etc.
As a whole, creating the mark making tools was in which very intriguing and fascinating, as you had you had to especially think, take note and consider what type and kind of marks it may make or create on paper once dipped into paint / ink. In relevance to this, I feel that I was overly successful in making / creating a wide array and range of different / varied mark making tools using multiple type of materials both household and natural. Surprisingly, my tools ended up creating some very vibrant and bold marks and patterns as a result of using different shapes and sizes throughout to produce multiple experimental and expressionistic pieces and compositions as pictured below.
(Scale of patterns / marks: A4. Date work / task was completed: 29/09/2020).
Alternative Means of Drawing (Blind Drawing)
Claire Smyth AAD009 Drawing in Practice Alt. Means – Continuous Line Blind Drawings (wire etc)
When completing this alternative means blind drawing task, blind drawing was something that I had never experienced working / drawing with before, which as a whole it was in fact highly enthusiastic and really brought out your creative side. – Which to complete this task, we were given the overall brief to look and draw yourself in the mirror from the shoulders up without looking at what you are drawing and not lifting the pen from the page with the main aim of sketching / drawing a (10 +) continuous line drawing self portrait using a wide range of both pens / markers etc.
Surprisingly, after all attempts, I overall feel that I was still able to recognise and make out a solid facial structure and features similar to myself within my drawings to where I then went onto copying and going against one using black florist / gardeners wire to create the lines and marks of the specific face / self portrait with a 3 dimensional affect.
(Scale of drawings: A5 / A4. Date work / task was completed & produced: 29/09/2020).