Monday, 26 November 2012

Anatomy Abstracted continued......

After drawing out my knee in many colors and ways I came up with  idea's for my final piece.
I sectioned off parts of my drawings and blew them up into larger compositions.
After drawing up in thumbnails I then sectioned off an A2 sheet of card into 4 parts.
This is the outcome below....

For each section I prepared a surface to draw on, this one was crushed tissue paper painted with emulsion.
I used pro markers and oil pastels in this drawing.  The creases showing through the drawing from the surface is very effective.  I chose the color be mainly browns and greens giving it an organic feel.


This was my monochromatic drawing, my surface was newspaper print and emulsion.  This has a more mechanical feel to it, due to the color theme.
Some aspects of the surface has also shone through this which has added affect to the finish drawing. It was done with Charcoal, white chalk and pro markers.


For this composition I painted thick, emulsion, which has given it a different texture to draw on.  I chose to use ink and oil pastels which is a new one for me. Watering the ink down, painting it over oil pastels, scratching into it.  I also used a dud pencil to draw the initial lines and scribble over various areas.
I used these mediums in my A2 drawing as I liked the affect so much.


This Piece was Chalks, I applied pro marker to define some of my lines.  The surface I prepared was masking tape and emulsion.  I chose bright contrasting colors  and blended them together in some parts and kept other parts separated. 




The above is my A2 drawing which I drew using inks and oil pastels, I also prepared the surface with emulsion.  I feel I abstracted my anatomy drawings well.  Using techniques I'm comfortable with and also experimenting with things I hadn't used before.  If I wanted I could then go on to create prints or sculptures from these drawings.  Which I may do in my specialist at some point depending on where my research takes me.

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Anatomy Abstract is what comes to mind.....

I have chosen to look at the anatomy for my drawing studies, with a twist as I love playing with shapes and color and form.  So far I have drawn a sketch in fine liner of the skull of the skeleton in the studio, I have drawn two sketches of images from my anatomy book.

Here are my sketches......
The front of a Knee without the cap.
I found this image inspiring, I think I can incorporate this into an abstract drawing.
Below is an enlarged fully grown bone, showing the microscopic cells and tissues.

I have made copies of my sketches so I can work into them with a range of different drawing materials, to see how I can abstract them.  I found this one above interesting as it could become many things, like strange building or world, factory or machine of some kind.  No matter how I go about it each viewer will perceive it  differently, that's what I love about abstracting things.  
Above is the sketch of the College skeleton I done in studio time, fine liner.
I enjoyed scribbling it done on the page loosely.  The more I built up on it the more it became detail and came together.