Category: Art and Architecture

• OCA Foundations Drawing – Final piece, ‘A Spoon’

  Draw what you see reflected in the spoon using variations of tone. Depict depth, shine and roundness. I tried very hard to look carefully at the shapes that were made…

• OCA Drawing 1 – Gallery Visit, Lines of Thought at Poole Museum

  I felt like a child in sweet shop at this exhibition, it was truly awesome. Drawings by a huge range of incredible artists, taken from the British Museum’s collection. The…

  

• OCA Drawing 1 – Project 2, Still Life, Exercise 4 – Monochrome

  I wasn’t sure how to approach this drawing, so spent a while researching monochrome drawings completed by other OCA students as well as practising artists. Not wanting to go for the…

• OCA Drawing 1 – Project 2, ‘Still Life’, Exercises 1 and 2

  The first exercise focusses on investigating the use of line in a still life painting. Thinking about how you’ll show the connections and differences between the objects and where you’ll…

  

• OCA Drawing 1, Part 2, Project 1, Exercise 1 -Detail and Tone

  Practising using pencils and cross-hatching to build up light, medium and dark tones in a natural still life drawing. I chose to draw cedar wood roses as I thought these…

  

• OCA Drawing 1 Research Point – Looking at Positive and Negative Spaces in Different Artist’s Work

  Looking at how various artists have made use of positive and negative space, I’ve found it useful to focus on the background of paintings and look at how the negative space around…

• OCA Drawing 1 – Research Point: Still Life Genre

  The earliest evidence of still life drawings date back to at least the 1st century AD in Pompeii, in House of the Vettii. Here pictures are painting within simulated frames (painted…

• OCA study visit to Cambridge Original Printmakers Biennale

    On 25th September I went along to my first OCA study visit, organised by Clare Wilson. It was easy for me to get to because I don’t live far…

• OCA Drawing 1- Part 2, Research Point – Odilon Redon

  Look at Odilon Redon’s use of tone, find further works by the artist and discuss the atmospheric potential of tone. I’m very pleased to look more closely at an aspect…

• OCA Drawing 1 – Project 2, Exercise 3 – Creating shadow using lines and marks.

  For this exercise I was asked to choose a simple object and, using four different drawing tools, experiment with using different marks to create the effect of gradations in tone.…