Drawings that will be hung in the gallery

Me and my tutors decided to frame these drawings as a set because the colours worked well together. 

2x A0 and 1x A1

A0

A0

A1

I was going to exhibit x5 of my minimal drawings aswel but this would have been too expensive because I need such large frames. I would have only exhibited them in a set because I feel like they are too minimal on their own. I thought about getting some of my own frames and selling them in the shop we are building for the exhibition. It will interesting to see how the shop goes. Organising, planning, getting frames, pricing work, framing work, presentation of the shop.

Choosing exhibition space for sculpture

The copper wire mesh became the best option because of the support it gave to the structure. After making the head and part of the neck and shoulders of the body, I ran out of wire mesh and ordered some more which took a couple of weeks to arrive. I was able to photograph the life model and work from the photographs at home. The photographs I had taken were of the life model lying down on her side at different angles. The head had enough support but as I progressed into larger parts of the body, I started to lose the support. I asked my 3-d tutor for some advise - she suggested trying to manipulate the body more like I did to the head because it would compact the wire together. I struggled and started to think I was too ambitious because of the size. I placed my sculpture in different parts of the exhibition space and found that placing it onto a plinth against a wall gave the sculpture support.

The spot lights made the sculpture glow, so I decided to leave the sculpture and considered it finished when lit because I didn't feel like I needed to make a perfect figure. I experimented with differnt coloured filters to see what gave the effect I felt the sculpture needed. I preferred the red filters because the sculpture didn't need any multicoloured lighting, I wanted to keep the sculpture simple. The red filters made the sculpture look bold, muscular and whole. Using different coloured filters separated the body which I didn't want.

The head looks elongated because I left the gap at the top of the head open. I left it like this during making my sculpture so that I would be able to reach inside to mold the body. I have left it open now because it balances with the hole at the other side of the figure.

My friend said the sculpture looks like a tunnel from this angle. I like how the limps on my sculpture mould into the body form and don't separate. Me and my friend also discussed the problem of knowing when to stop. I think I tend to over-work things sometimes but I think I stopped at the right time.

I like the blue light on the face of the sculpture but I it wasn't powerful enough to cover the sculpture.

Me and my tutors had the idea of placing the sculpture on the life model mattress because it would show progression from the life drawing classes. However I felt that placing the sculpture on the mattress made the sculpture look smaller and dull so we removed the mattress. I think the plinth looked better because of the balance of straight edges against the organic form.

We talked about where we could put the sculpture in the gallery space and decided that a space of its own would be the best option so it wouldn't be a distraction underneath the framed work.

2xA0 Drawing for the exhibition

I made a drawing of a friend using charcoal and oil pastel. These were drawings I decided to re-work. I had already drawn them both in charcoal, then added colour when I came back to them because I wanted to experiment with oil pastels large scale before choosing work for exhibition.

When I re-worked the drawings, I didn't have the models there however I knew where I needed to add colour because of the way I had drawn it.

Start of copper wire sculpture

I started my wire sculpture. I decided on copper mesh because I preferred the colour. I began by cutting off and rolling up a rectangle piece of mesh and then sculpted the face from the photographs I had taken of the life model. I hung the images on the wall in sequence so that I could see the model at different angles.

I came to a problem when I wanted to attach another piece of mesh. I used a sewing technique using strips of wire mesh that had fallen off when cutting off chunks of mesh. I only fixed them loosely at first because I knew that I would need to change the positioning of the attachment because the positioning of the attchments was important to supporting areas of the sculpture.

Drawing another student

Direct observational drawing of a friend who was drawing her artwork onto the wall. The last decision I made on the drawing was the red lines, I think it added depth. I was skeptical about this drawing at first because I was unsure whether I liked the way it was drawn. I used pastels to begin with then the oils.

'Untitled' Oil Pastel and pastel

Large scale drawing

This was my first large scale drawing from direct observation. I found it more challenging because I had to adjust my height depending on where I was drawing on the paper. I asked the other student to stand on chair so that she was at eye level.

I liked the minimal approach to the drawing but I'm going to leave it on the board because I will probably re-work it, possibly adding ink or colour crayons. I definatley think I need to do alot more drawings before i'm happy about hanging these large scale drawing in the exhibition.

Life drawing

I wanted to work with the life model and do some extra drawings. The life drawing class on the degree course on Monday morning were a good opportunity. I was able to have the model to myself so I decided on doing some quick drawings. The outcome were these minimal drawings using charcoal, pastel and pencil crayon.

Working from observation