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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 I might use different coloured fabric together as well as different textures. Also, how I would incorporate stitched and pen-drawn lines. Due to how long Read more
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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 trying out a few ideas in my sketchbook, thinking about how I might translate pencil drawn line into stitched line: I chose a few different Read more
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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 size of your normal handwriting…fill the sheet with repeated marks. Choose another sheet and do the same with another letter. …create an interesting image made up Read more
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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 the rectangles using your painted sheet as a base. Use the strips and squares as though they were drawn lines. I tried out lots of different Read more
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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 studio window, in early 1972, where a local farmer grazed his sheep in the field there. Each page is an example of Moore’s expertise in Read more
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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 fine line pen was better in this sense, but the permanence of the marks means I need to be more precise in my depiction of Read more
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