After doing rough sketches of my scene from different angles and finding one I liked, I then took one of the sketches and did some experimenting with ink before working on my A2 piece. To help show depth, via aerial perspective, I made the wind turbines fade into the distance and made the mountain in the background very light.

In my final piece I decided to have the old windmill smudged and fading away to emphasize the feeling of the old being replaced by new technology. I feel that I made the mountain in the final too dark and should have made it softer.

I decided to have long grass stalks in the foreground and run right across the page to create low and exclude the viewer from the piece.

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The first statue I decided to draw was one I found in Venice in the garden of an art museum. The statue itself was black and rough but reflected a lot of light. I struggled a bit with the area of its face where its eyes would have been, I felt I could not get the shape quite right but it was fun to draw this strange creature.

As a bit of a pallet cleanser I decided to draw another statue that I found in Greece. I did it with ink and water which I have never used for a human figure before so it was an interesting challenge.

I enjoyed this exercise more than the previous townscape exercises although I do still need to work on my shading when working with pen. I feel that my preliminary sketch held enough information to do my final sketch. I enjoy making townscapes that are not as symmetrical and formal where all the buildings look the same. I enjoy buildings that have their own character.

I however did not do a very good job at portraying a foreground middle ground and background. In that way my drawing ended up looking very flat.

for this exercise I decided to focus on an old fish drying warehouse close to where I live. I love the old and tattered look of the building and it brings memories of my childhood living in a fishing village by a river. I liked the look of the paint pealing off of the door and walls.

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In the first picture I used watercolours. I made the sky and the furthest mountain too close a colour I think and perhaps should have left the sky white.

In the second picture I used tea and charcoal. I decided to have the closest trees light and have them get darker as they go further back and so made an effect of a campfire and night which I quite like.

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In this exercise I found it difficult to depict values of light, I think I was focusing too much on the perspective of the scene. I feel I should have done the drawing on a larger piece of paper since there were a lt of small details that I struggled to get in.

I have got prior experience with doing technical drawings and parallel perspective and so i quite enjoyed this exercise. Using a ruler helped a lot but I am happy to see that my original lines were not too far off from the vanishing point.

For this exercise I did two drawings of the same view, one which I could go over in pen to show perspective as well as the fore- mid- and background. A large portion of the scene is taken up by my background.

I focused on making the mountains and some of the trees that were further away very simplistic and light to help portray distance.

April Gornik

Gornik’s work often features cloud formations, here she has captured the majesty of the storm while reminding us that it is a mere painting. This however does not stop the viewer from feel as though they have been transported into the scene.

The small patch of yellow light in the bottom center of the painting signifies what little wildlife is left that still remains untouched by humans.

Peter Doig

Doig uses photographs as references for is artwork but then adds his own unique and mystical touch to the work. This piece was based off of a photograph of his brother standing on a frozen pond and looking down at his reflection. The reflection represents one being absorbed into nature his/her surroundings

Sources:

https://magazine.artland.com/top-10-lanscape-artists-in-modern-and-contemporary-art/

Peter Doig: The Return Of The Unreal