February 2012
11 posts
Wow Chris Harris illustration is amazing →
The Hockney exhibition
I liked Garrowby hill 1998 and the watercolour landscapes. The
Charcoal tree drawings are strong.
He enjoys hawthorn but makes it look like worms and I really didn’t like these paintings. He is so prolific he makes a virtue out of the speedy unfinished appearance of a lot of his work. His
early scratched landscape is great, full of joy. I was ambivalent about fluorescent colours in...
David Shrigley
I took myself to see this exhibition yesterday with low expectations but found it really refreshing and amusing. He makes his ideas and the execution of them appear very simple but in fact the design of many of them is sophisticated and certainly the ideas, though they may be simple, feed and certain 21st century zeitgeist. They take the piss, have a poke at politics, contemporary art, the...
Exhibitions
I have been to a whole bunch of exhibitions recently and failed to blog about them and yet they have all fed my imagination in one way or another. So here’s a brief summary of what I’ve seen and what I thought about them. First I went on an OCA study visit to Liverpool to see the Alice in Wonderland show at Tate Liverpool, followed by Matisse books at the Walker Art gallery. Both were...
January 2012
67 posts
allisoninwards asked: Hi Jane, I've just managed to get my first iPhone (a 3GS but still exciting!) - I've downloaded Brushes and started to play but found very quickly my fingers are too chunky to see what I'm doing on a little screen. Great for practicing sketching without looking at the support but not so good if I do want to make considered marks. I noticed your work on iPad and iPhone and...
1 tag
3 tags
Reflection on tutor feedback Assignment 2
I’ve had loads of really useful feedback on my latest assignment, the only thing is that it makes me want to start again, but I need to press ahead on the next section of the course and the third assignment.
Slightly frustratingly, because I’m keeping a paper based log, and hadn’t uploaded all my exercises to my blog, I missed getting feedback on some things, so I’ll be...
3 tags
2 tags
Great animation →
More great animation from Michele Howarth Rashman. Grotesque, witty and unnervingly pin sharp satire on bodies, sex, and the cover up so may of us do to alleviate self consciousness.
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
Louise Morgan →
Here is an illustrator I really like, with her free flowing pen and ink lines and broad brush watercolours. I also like her drypoint prints onto cardboard and it makes me want to get into the studio to do some.
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
