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 (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).
Museum
Claire Smyth AAD009 Drawing in Practice: Museum visit / drawings
During the two full days off campus in the Ulster Museum, I have in which created multiple drawings / studies soley using the drawing materials of different types of charcoal along with aspects of pen through looking at and drawing from specific exhibitions and pieces of history placed throughout and around the museum.
Over the corresponding two days I produced 4 charcoal studies based upon exhibitions that I found intriguing to draw from, these included: dinosaur skeletons, bones, ceramics, structures (metal beams), windows, doors, stones and glass display cases that held historical pieces such as clothing, vases, medals and crystals etc.
Getting the chance to go to the museum despite COVID-19 restrictions was in fact extremely useful, educational and also visually pleasant as I was able to go round at my own pace scanning and looking out for significant exhibitions which caught my eye both intellectually and physically especially through the various selections of exhibitions available to where I feel that I was overly happy my ability to draw from what I see. In addition to this, the ability to just focus upon using charcoal as the main media for the drawings over the two days was in fact extremely worthwhile, as previously charcoal has not been one of the best drawing materials for myself personally to use as I found myself not being able to utilise it correctly and most sufficiently to achieve the best effects. However, getting to fully focus on just drawing, using and playing with different types of charcoal was in fact highly beneficial and rewarding as I was able to receive any relevant guidance / critiques, along with new improving ways and techniques as the time went on regarding the most successful ways to utilise, draw and experiment with charcoal to achieve a successful piece of drawing / artwork.
(Range of scale used in charcoal drawings: A3 / A2. Date over when work was completed: 6th – 7th October).