Category: Art and Architecture

• OCA Foundations Drawing – Project 5.7 Using Fabric

  Exercise: Low-relief collage using fabric Create a set of three small images in the form of low-relief collages. I sketched out a few ideas on paper first. Looking at how…

  

• OCA Foundations Drawing – Textiles, Project 5.6 Mark-making with stitch

  Look at your drawings from parts One and Two of the course…Look for areas that lend themselves to interpretation with thread. Exercises: Lines, visual and physical texture, tonal variation. After…

  

• OCA Foundations Drawing, Part 5 – Options (5.5)

  Option 3: Collage and Text Project 5.5 Hand-drawn text A collage using hand drawn text Choose a single letter of the alphabet and draw the letter at least twice the…

  

• OCA Foundation Drawing, Part 5 – Options (5.4)

  Option 3 – Collage and Text 5.4 ‘Found’ text From your found material (magazine or newspaper), cut out squares and rectangles containing single words or letters…and short phrases. Play with…

  

• About: Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook

  I was bought this published sketch book for my birthday and have greatly enjoyed studying the 96 illustrations it contains. The sketches were made by Henry Moore from behind a…

  

• OCA Foundations Drawing – Project 4.3, Hand and Feet

  I began by making a few quick sketches of my hands in different media. The pencil I used wasn’t soft enough to capture the depth of the different tones, the…

  

• OCA Foundations Drawing, Part Four, Project 4.2 – Enlarging an image

  Exercise: Breaking the image down Increase the scale of one of your drawings by drawing a grid of squares over it and drawing the same number of squares onto a…

  

• OCA Foundations Drawing – Part Four, Negative and Positive Spaces

  Project 4.1 Simple objects Exercise: Still life Make up a still-life group using four or five similar plain, long, unpatterned fruit, vegetables or manufactured objects…Draw the same scene three times using…

  

• On Kiki Smith

  Kiki Smith is an American artist, born in Germany in 1954. Her work addresses themes such as birth, sex, the human condition and the natural world. She was brought up…

• OCA Foundations Drawing, Part 3

  3.1 Man-made form and basic perspective Exercise: Open Cupboard The point of this exercise was to draw the contents of an open kitchen door that contains an assortment of manufactured…