Week 1 Reflections 2: A drawing a Day

This Morandi drawing (Still Life 1960) inspires me, as tone and line has been used to create an exciting composition.  The mark making does not give the object's form or describe photorealistic  tonal qualities, like you would find in a classical work where it would be applied to create a 3d representation of the object in 2D. Morandi is playing with the same angular stroke to create interesting designs.  With the incomplete lines suggesting at negative merging with the object's space.  This is a flat 2D interpretation.In response to this, I have started to look at a smaller scale, and what to not draw in relation to negative and positive space.  My style is usually quite fast with a continuous  line to describe, before going in with tone.  This has been challenging to do, by not doing a continuous outline of the warthog.  I compromised, by doing very faint lines and dots in some areas.  I did enjoy only filling in some of the background.  Goals for week 2: look at different perspectives of the still life (e.g. high, low), continue not doing full outlines and look at how to communicate background though mark making.

Week 1 Reflections: A drawing a Day

First morandi studies, looking at his drawings have revealed that his Still Life's contain common everyday objects such as bottles and bowls.  He plays on negative and positive space, reducing the objects to interesting shapes using strong lighting to create his compositions.

Having started to look at just bits of my still life object enlarged, I can start to see interesting shapes formed with negative spaces.

Goals for week 2: use more than one object in my still life setup and explore scale and mark making more.

Research Point: What are the Differences and Similarities between these 3 mediums:

Write a list of similarities and differences between the acts of drawing (or painting) and photography. Think about how they are used to make images and what can happen during that making process.