katiemockridge

 Lubaina Himid I created this presentation after researching into artist Lubaina Himid whilst also looking at links between other artists and the themes that their work represents.  

Collage For this workshop, I recreated the view from my room with paper. It is a development for my Point's of View project which is about fast fashion and I wanted to document where fast fashion was bought, in shops and in the city. I used collage to experiment with how I could use collage to represent light and shadow which also links into my usual simple style of shading. I like the mixture of perspective and also flatness that layering the paper created.

 Colour Within this workshop, we explored how colour, shade and combination influences how a piece of work makes us feel and how we can implement that to be able to lead the viewers eye and to evoke the emotions we want to represent. After listening to a certain sound, I cut and placed paper in a way that would reflect what I'm hearing and visualising in my head.        For the first one, the sound was of crashing waves. It felt quite calm but the waves sounded like they were big and crashing against each other. I wanted the shapes to be curved and intersecting to get the effect of the waves merging into one and moving in unison. Using the palette of white blue and green was to relate to the calmness with these colours seeming cool and cold. I also only used half of the page to show that the landscape was in the middle of the ocean with the sky above it. This time, the sound was the crackling of a forest fire. I imagined the flames being tall and big m...

 Approaches to Drawing Within this workshop, I looked at different methods of drawing, aiming to give me other ways of drawing that I don't usually do.  This first drawing was produced after reading a description of a creature with speckled skin, a horn in the centre of its face and armour all over its body. I imagined an animal like a sabre tooth tiger but with armoured plates over its back, prowling through snow. The description was in fact about a rhino, the same description used for  Dürer's  Rhinoceros. I searched for a reference image of a rhino and drew form that. This is the usual method that I use so this approach came much more natural to me. This version was completely from memory and, surprising myself, it actually resulted in a drawing with a not too dissimilar outcome to the picture where I did use a reference. I think that from looking at the reference images of the rhino, I was able to take in a lot of information ab...

Approaches to Drawing Characters Within this workshop, we used different skills to develop our process of creating drawings and in particular people and characters. This one was drawing someone from memory. We had 2 minutes to study someone, looking at the lines that form the face and also things like hand position. I feel like I did well in this task, it definitely taught me to draw from memory better and to look more closely at the lines on someone and how that can be translated to my drawing without having the person in front of me. This is called a blind drawing where I looked at the person's face the whole time without looking at what I was drawing. Using this technique made me not worry so much about details and every mark that I made and more about studying the face and getting the shapes and feeling of the piece. I think in time it will definitely also make me quicker at sketching as I'm putting less time into worrying about how the initial sketch would look. For ...

 Composition In this workshop, I chose an object (I chose glasses) and whilst listening to a piece of music, had to interpret that item within the work through the mood, atmosphere and theme of the music by means of composition.  The first song was slow and sombre. From this I imagined the glasses had been left behind or discarded by their owner. I think that the character that owns them is very sad and also probably lonely. To convey this I put the glasses and the forefront and the open door far behind it to show distance and to represent that characters feelings of detachment. I didn't put the glasses front and centre and chose the lines leading to wards the door to lead the eye to that space to want to know more about what's going on behind the story. This illustration was inspired by a piece of music that was very happy and celebratory. It definitely had a sense of joyfulness and that there was a party with dancing and fun which is why I positioned them...