Drawing Project :P

So on Fridays we have Drawing Class and were set a project about a month ago to have done for tomorrow...needless to say everyone left it to the last minute per usual :P

For the first part of this project, we had to pick both a contemporary artist and a dead one.  Once we had our choices made, we then had to study their works; take note of the types of markings they used; the materials; what they drew on etc.  Once thoroughly studied, we then had to create a drawing in their style.  Sounds fairly straight forward but drawing in someone elses style is not easy!

For my dead artist I chose Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.  I hadnt been that familiar with his work before this but on studying him for this, he has fast become one of my favourites.  His style is very different to mine, I do very literal art whereas with his he suggests more than literally saying something.

So with that, I practised his style before making my own creation.

I then took the subject matter of loneliness and homelessness from my first project to help with the composition of my finished piece.

I did the same with my contemporary artist.  i chose Fiona Banner for this as i was aware of her as a sculptor but not so much with drawing.  Fiona sees language as an art form and therefore worked a lot with words.

Again i did sketchbook work before creating my own image.

Fiona would write out every details of films on walls for her work so i decided to look at a life as a film and write out details of that.  Taking 4 events from my life that stand out for me, i covered a studio wall with it.

The final part of the project was to draw our interpretation of the word "blue"....art people are gas arent they :P

So i took it as an emotion and drew my own interpretation of the word blue.