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| Personal project brief... and up and running! |
Almost a fortnight into the New Year. Did you make any resolutions? How are they holding up? Having made so many last year I decided to be more focused on a single resolution for 2014 - and so a personal project has been born :
Artist in an Acre.
My aim is to maximize time spent on developing personal work and a visual language whilst exploring, discovering and documenting my front garden, patio area, back garden and in our small paddock. (Yes, you guessed, the area of these is probably just over an acre - "our little bit of England" as my husband describes it). The plan is to do this with research, investigation and interpretation through the processes of drawing/painting/photography and video. I have even composed a personal project brief! This step feels like a real commitment and already I am on my way...
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| Sketchbook pages 1 |
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| Sketchbook pages 2 |
Just after New Year we had the willow tree that grows alongside the studio pollarded, this is necessary every few years otherwise the branches scrape against the felt shingle roof and damage it. We all pitched in to help, but I did manage to grab a short time to try and record the activity. Constantly moving, no time for posing, I just had to keep looking at the figures even as my pencil moved across the paper... real 'action shots'.
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| Sketchbook pages 3 |
I have also scuttled up the paddock on another occasion when the sky and lighting were quite dramatic, to scribble a quick sketch with notes to act as reminders in case I'm inspired to work on a painting from it at some point. I have grabbed the opportunity to study some of the old apples still hanging on grimly to the apple trees in the front garden, knowing that if I delay the birds will have finished them off.
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| Sketchbook pages - apple studies in sepia Pilot pen |
Currently I am working in a 81/2" x 12" sketchbook with good quality cartridge paper pages, I plan to do some work in situ on larger sheets of individual paper plus some paintings. So please do visit regularly to see what is happening.
Why not set yourself a project of some kind? Perhaps explore your own surroundings? Or maybe focus on still life for a period of time... or figures... or portraits...What might you achieve with a concentrated period of time on something specific? I would love to hear.
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Captured on camera by my son!
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