Robin Child, some more

Drawing from the middle, leaving daylight between colours allowing them to breath, drawing the shadow line. The Fauves. Above all enjoy the colour. 
This was from a photo taken at the end of the car park (a field) at Sarah Raven's garden in Kent.







and then on the final day

Tenerife, and I have yet to go there. 

Robin Child Course: Dynamic Drawing with landscape

OK so he's moved to Budleigh Salterton.  It is lovely but a wrench from Devizes. This course was about how to integrate the chaos of landscape and what we see with how we can organise the rectangle in an acceptable way.  The artists used were Jacques Villon, Ivon Hitchens, Paul Cezanne and the Japanese woodcut printers such as Hokasai.
Draw to paint: translate the landscape and then allow the painting to translate the drawing.
Drawing is exploring NOT explaining.
We start with Arcadia, the dream.  The personal versus work and how the Italian masters tensioned the rectangle.
Drawing is a manifestation of the excitement of seeing.

these are my own drawings:



followed by an oil painting

 
Hitchins drew by middles not edges.
Delacroix, the first colourist leading to the Fauve.  (Manguin) What is light? and the drawing of shadow tracks.  Constable: Nature/chaos leading to order informed by our own emotions.

This started and a drawing from the farmland behind the South Farm but became a vaster landscape.

Hitchins: drawing a continuous line, not looking at canvas.  Wide canvas allowed a wide angle or zoom and can be read from left to right.  Draw the rhythms in dark and find the linear rhythms.  No focal point, but did use golden section (sometimes x2).
My own attempts

water based ink on foam board

a further experiment to see if this feels more "wood like"

switch to water based ink on card

then rollering ink onto card  to explore surfaces

switch to water based ink on card

This is just mark-making initially 

Summer term starts 2011

And I am going to look more at surfaces, changes with the effects of time, distressing with sand blasting, fire or just plain sand paper.  Micro versus macro, the mechanical giving way to chaos.  The use of stencilling this week and how that could mimic metallic edges.
These are drawings in charcoal and graphite and chalk on paper.  Next time acrylic on mdf?

meanwhile back at the farm

2 more images in my Cars in a Wood series with the background image appearing first.  In the above image a Healey 3000 should emerge.